The Connecticut Department of Correction has moved its medical isolation unit, used to separate inmates sickened with COVID-19, from the state’s maximum security prison to nearby facility in Suffield, officials said Wednesday.
Early on in the monthslong pandemic, top correction officials decided to start sending those inmates with symptomatic COVID-19 infections to Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, a move that was met with criticism from advocates and activists.
But officials on Wednesday said the medical isolation unit would move to MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, about 10 miles away.
In announcing the move, correction officials said they have not had an inmate with symptomatic COVID-19 since Sept.