First Federal Inmate Tests Positive For Coronavirus In NYC | MSNBC

The federal bureau of Prisons announced that the first federal inmate tested positive for coronavirus. According to the agency, the inmate remains in isolation at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Inmates that were near the COVID-19 positive prisoner have been quarantined.» Subscribe to MSNBC:

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First Federal Inmate Tests Positive For Coronavirus In NYC | MSNBC

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  1. The fact that the virus made it into a prison means it’s spread is way more advanced than we think. Good thing everybody who wants a test can get a test, right t’rump supporters? 🤔🤣

    1. Ya. Because guards or other employees of the federal penitentiaries dont go out into the general public right? They dont go to grocery stores, Gas stations, banks or anything like that right? So it would be IMPOSSIBLE for a guard to bring it in, and pass it on to an inmate who is locked in a dirty, unsanitary building with a bunch of unsanitary inmates, right? Not to mention the ones who share cells, enter gangs or sit at a table with 50 people at a time. A prison is a hotbed for disease if you actually think about it. You think convicts are sanitary? Think they are all squeaky clean and lysol wiping everything in sight?
      Edit: and I forgot trump was the one who spread this infectious disease. It’s all his fault. You people are just reaching for straws arent you?

    2. 10,000 of you for 1 Charlie Whiskey no he didn’t he just renamed it he didn’t dismantle it it is still in effect

    3. @Ro G Well said. The “Trump Virus” Continues To Decimate Our Jobs & Our Families. This Virus Happened Under Trumps Watch Thus “The Trump Virus”. Almost 450 American Deaths & Almost 35,000 Cases.

  2. First discovered to be infected but with no such thing as space in prisons those places are hives for viruses.

    1. @Viking Strongman not all prisoners are guilty. Some got framed, innocent. Some they don’t have the choice. We are all humans. We make mistakes. I pray to God you don’t cought up in the system because people like you are the first one to cry mommy inside the prison.

    2. @Random Youtube Comment no need to entertain the side show act. You gotta ignore stupidity and ignorance

    3. @Random Youtube Comment the odds of him ending up in prison over 1 dumb mistake is higher then him dying from the coronavirus lmao, hes just ignorant

    1. 🙄Visitors were only recently banned & there’s a 2 week incubation period before many people start showing symptoms. Therefore, the virus most likely came via visitors, or the prison staff. Or the new prisoners who were incarcerated in the last 2 weeks. Or via a lawyer, or a prisoner caught it at the courthouse & brought it back. Loads of ways for a little bitty virus to sneak in 🙄

  3. I was a prison nurse, I can tell you one thing for certain.

    If one of them has it, all of them have it.

    1. I was a inmate and health care is nonexistent in the fbop. They are going to tell inmates to take aspirin and cough syrup and drink some wster. That is their treatment.

    2. @Scott Spadea If you believe that the dregs of society should have health care before law abiding citizens, you are not only naive but you are a fool.

    1. @Consolidated Freedom its because they probably all have it. hes just one of the few who got tested im sure

    1. Same way they get free food,power,clothes,toiletries and more. A friend if mine once said that people in prison are treated like badly behaved children. They have chores and the basics . They even get 30 mins to 1 hour free time like a kindergarten kid

    2. @Wakk Artizt PraduckshinZ of course they do, that why they take someone who has a 1 year sentence and place them in state pen to process them and then shoot them over to county lol

    3. Johnny Wadd man they get #Dental #Vision and #Degrees etc etc etc verses Us in the world good dental and vision and Degrees 🧐

  4. First ya worry about a prison breakout. Now, ya worry about a prison outbreak. Make up your mind!

    1. northerniltree both, you thought you had cooked up some real quick with This shi 💀 Hn obviously they gone worry bout the 2 and not just one

    1. @Discount Ronaldo If you think they wont take advantage of it to strip you of your freedoms, well, they already are. They are already destroying the lives of millions to “save” the lives of thousands, and people seem just fine with that.

      Not only are they already doing it, but people are eating the propaganda with a spoon.

    1. @Yingin Yang – I’m Ok with him calling it the chinese virus. But I’m also ok with him taking responsibility for the slow response

    2. @Conscious Citizen – maybe so, it is curious how he keeps coming up with all these ailments and injuries in prison. Keeping him away from the general population

    3. Marley Jansen if you still haven’t realize, people with high economic and social status (even in prison) have access to the tests. Also there have to be way more than a few inmates infected. They just haven’t got to be tested yet. It is going to be a disaster.

    1. @Smileyrie James yeah Philly is arresting people and essentially letting them go on “bail”. And people wait for notification of a court date. They’ll just have a pending warrant until then

    2. How do the prisoners contract covid 19 if they’re isolated inside the prison?? They aren’t leaving out the facility to bring it back or to pick it up so…?? 🤔🤔

    1. @Jim McCracken it is. There are multiple prisons facing this. They’re just reporting on the first confirmed case. There are dozens of not more. Rikers has 15 staff and 20+ inmates infected

    1. It’s amazing to see that even in a time of disaster and tragedy the trolls take no days off lol. Keep joking till it’s knocking at ur door.

  5. Now how did that happen, how come we haven’t heard of any correctional officers testing positive? But an imate🤔

    1. Right How do the prisoners contract covid 19 if they’re isolated inside the prison?? They aren’t leaving out the facility to bring it back or to pick it up so…?? 🤔🤔

  6. There are people in prison for not being able to pay a municipal fine. Being incarcerated doesn’t automatically mean that they’re subhuman or deserving of death.

    1. Glen-Roy Anderson But the paedophiles, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, torturers, animal cruelty perpetrators etc sure do!

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