Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government,
Criminal
Mar. 4, 2022
Prisons officials must face claims of knowingly infecting guard, inmates
Judge orders lawsuit by family members of San Quentin guard who died of COVID-19 to proceed.
High level officials for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and San Quentin State Prison must face claims of knowingly exposing prison inmates and guards to COVID-19 when 122 inmates were transferred with high medical risk factors from Chino to San Quentin, sparking one of the country's worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the early stages of the pandemic.
The result was the deaths of 28 prisoners and Sgt. Gilbert Polanco, a guard who...
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