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Watchdog finds flawed virus response at California prison

by Associated Press
| July 23, 2020 9:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prison complex in California struggled to contain the spread of the coronavirus because of staff shortages, limited use of home confinement and ineffective screening, the Justice Department watchdog said Thursday as it released the first results of remote inspections of facilities across the country.

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