State prisons shut off visits over flu worries
The Indiana Department of Correction has suspended visits to inmates so the swine flu virus isn't introduced into the confined prison environments.
Correction Department spokesman Doug Garrison says the no-visit policy went into effect Wednesday at all of its adult and juvenile prisons. He says the policy will be re-evaluated on a weekly basis.
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Garrison says the suspension of visits is intended to protect the roughly 27,000 prisoners and 8,000 employees in the prisons.
He says no cases of swine flu have been reported in the prisons.
The LaGrange County Jail in northern Indiana has suspended visits from the public for at least two weeks.
The Indianapolis Star
Correction Department spokesman Doug Garrison says the no-visit policy went into effect Wednesday at all of its adult and juvenile prisons. He says the policy will be re-evaluated on a weekly basis.
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Garrison says the suspension of visits is intended to protect the roughly 27,000 prisoners and 8,000 employees in the prisons.
He says no cases of swine flu have been reported in the prisons.
The LaGrange County Jail in northern Indiana has suspended visits from the public for at least two weeks.
The Indianapolis Star
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