Criminal
Dec. 14, 2020
State prisons deny coercing inmates into waiving liability if they refuse transfers and die of COVID
High risk inmates who refused to move to safer quarters were asked to sign a form stating they understood the risks, stated a prisons department spokeswoman.
The state prisons department has rejected allegations raised by inmates who said they are being coerced into signing waivers accepting responsibility for their own deaths from COVID-19 if they refuse to be transferred to another facility.
Patients with high risk for complications were asked to voluntarily move to safer housing, Elizabeth Gransee, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Th...
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