WASHINGTON — A federal prison in California struggled to contain the spread of the coronavirus because of staff shortages, limited use of home confinement and ineffective screening, the Justice Department watchdog said Thursday as it released the first results of remote inspections of facilities across the country.
The report found that staff members at the Bureau of Prisons facility in Lompoc, California, came to work despite experiencing coronavirus symptoms, and that officials in March failed to test or isolate an inmate who had begun having symptoms two days earlier and eventually tested positive.
