{"id":39512,"date":"2020-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/in-person-visits-to-resume-at-u-s-prisons-in-october\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:10:07","slug":"in-person-visits-to-resume-at-u-s-prisons-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/in-person-visits-to-resume-at-u-s-prisons-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"In-Person Visits to Resume at U.S. Prisons in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>To date, 12,610 federal inmates have tested positive for COVID-19<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Sept. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; In-person visits for inmates are scheduled to resume on Oct. 3, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Visits were suspended in March to help control the spread of the new coronavirus within the federal prison system&#8217;s 121 facilities that house 127,000 inmates, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>When in-person visits resume, inmates and visitors will be required to wear masks, visitors will be screened and have their temperatures taken, and high-touch surfaces such as tables and chairs will be disinfected after each visit, according to an internal memo cited by the <i>Associated Press<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 12,610 federal inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 and results are pending for more than 2,000 tests. Two bureau staff members and 118 inmates have died of COVID-19, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/federal-prisons-will-resume-visitations-october\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To date, 12,610 federal inmates have tested positive for COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}