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Swine flu case shuts down visits at all 33 state prisons

by Edmund Jenks | May 3, 2009 at 05:54 pm

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This posting illustrates what a folly it is not to have some sort of control over the flow of humans across our BORDERS!

We can have the Government protect prisoners, but the politicians feel powerless to protect us, the citizens who vote them into office and pay the taxes ... so that we can pay the politicians a salary, then, further, pay to house and feed the prisoners!

By Loretta Kalb
Published: Sunday, May. 3, 2009 - 4:35 pm

The worry over swine flu eased at a junior high school campus in Davis on Sunday, but it worsened in the state prison system where visitations were suspended until further notice.

The Davis Joint Unified School District, which had announced Friday it intended to shut down Holmes Junior High School for at least a week based on advice from state health officials, got the all-clear signal Sunday when a student's probable case of swine flu turned out to be another form of influenza.

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At the Officer of the Receiver for California Prison Health Care Services, spokesman Luis Patino said Sunday that an inmate in Centinela State Prison in Imperial County was diagnosed as probable for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu.

"The inmate and his cellmate have been isolated, Patino said. "They remain at the prison."

George Kostyrko, spokesman for the state Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, said visitations at the state's 33 adult prisons, 6 youth facilities - including two in Stockton - and a small number of community-based facilities would be suspended until further notice.

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Roy C

at 18:40 on May 3rd, 2009

You are right. Prisons and schools- no contact. Border- "horse out of barn already", as if there was nothing to be gained by slowing the entrance of infected people.

Edmund Jenks

at 05:00 on May 4th, 2009

I have just re-read this article --- I still can't believe how strong the regard is for the problem of potential flu transmission between humans ... at the state prison system, but somehow the general population is on an every-man-for-themselves paradigm.

Welcome to Carter's Second Term!

paul s Sr (not verified)

at 19:11 on May 20th, 2009

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