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Gilbert Polanco, a guard at San Quentin for more than two decades, contracted COVID-19 on the job and died in 2020. The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from California prison officials who sought immunity from lawsuits for having transferred inmates with COVID-19 to San Quentin in May 2020, setting off an outbreak that killed 26 prisoners and …

Appeals court rules lawsuit by family of San Quentin guard who died of COVID-19 can proceed

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected California’s bid to toss out a lawsuit filed by the family of a corrections officer who died three years ago from COVID-19 after state officials ordered the transfer of infected inmates into his prison from another facility. His family sued in federal court the following year, accusing the California Department of Corrections and …

A man charged with murder over the death of a 17-month-old boy has been remanded in custody for nine months. Key points: Toddler Ronan Davies died in hospital last month Glenelg North man Quentin Corrigan has been charged with murder He has been remanded in custody WARNING: This story contains details readers may find distressing. SA Police allege Ronan Davies …

The family of a San Quentin prison guard who died of COVID-19 claim in a recently filed lawsuit that his death, along with 28 others, resulted from the botched transfer of infected inmates from a Southern California prison in May 2020. Gilbert Polanco, a 55-year-old father of two, died less than three months after a bus, dubbed “the beast” by …

San Quentin prison is fined $421,880 over deadly COVID-19 conditions; 28 inmates and an officer died

The family of a San Quentin inmate who contracted the coronavirus has filed the first death claim against the California correctional system related to the pandemic, citing the botched transfer of infected prisoners as the cause of his death. Daniel Ruiz, 61, is one of 27 inmates and employees who died of virus-related illnesses after San Quentin, California’s oldest prison, …

San Quentin coronavirus outbreak: At least 15 inmates have died of apparent complications from Covid-19

CNN — At least 15 people incarcerated at California’s oldest prison have died since June from apparent Covid-19-related complications amid a growing coronavirus outbreak at the facility, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. San Quentin, just north of San Francisco, has witnessed the worst coronavirus outbreak in California’s prison system. Unlike some of the state’s other correctional …

7 prisoners with coronavirus died at San Quentin and hundreds more are dying in US jails and prisons

Gavin Newsom is facing mounting pressure to release inmates as corrections officials scramble to contain outbreaks of coronavirus at state prisons. Nearly 100 people have died in Texas facilities Before the outbreak at San Quentin, the virus ravaged correctional facilities in central Ohio, Illlinois, Colorado and Texas, where at least 91 incarcerated people and nine staff members with Covid-19 have …

CNN — At least three death row inmates at California’s San Quentin State Prison had coronavirus and died, corrections officials says. An outbreak of the virus has overrun San Quentin since last month, with more than a third of incarcerated people there testing positive for Covid-19, according to CDCR data. A fourth death row inmate, Joseph Safarino Cordova, died Wednesday …