Although the recorded number of people contracting the coronavirus has dropped significantly citywide since the height of the pandemic six weeks ago, the number of confirmed cases within city jails has stayed constant, despite a sizable reduction in the jail population.
That vast majority of new cases are traceable to new detainees, however, suggesting that the Department of Correction and its partner agency, Correctional Health Services, managed to contain the virus’s spread despite pervasive fears that it would overrun facilities whose environments by nature are fertile breeding grounds for contagious illness.
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