Location:
SAN PEDRO, CA, UNITED STATES
Post Date:
May 18, 2020 5:32 PM
TAG ID:
upiphotostwo744429
(RM)
Credit:
JIM RUYMEN/UPI/Newscom
Format:
4000 x 3375 Color JPEG
Photographer:
JIM RUYMEN
Keywords:
coronavirus pandemic, Terminal Island Federal Correctional Insti
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
A small group of activists protest outside the Federal Correctional Institution in San Pedro, California on Saturday, May 2, 2020. The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are suing the U.S. government over conditions at the federal prison, where close to half of the inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus. Several hundred inmates and a smaller number of staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at Terminal Island. At least seven inmates have died from complication related to the virus. Los Angeles County health officials say all inmates in the facility are tested for COVID-19, and numbers released last week show that 552 inmates had recovered after testing positive. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has used a manufacturing facility at the prison as expanded housing, and has erected military tents to distance inmates from one another. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI