Department of Correction officials said Wednesday that they are monitoring 56 inmates who tested positive for COVID-19, part of an uptick in inmate illness following weeks in which few cases were reported.
Two DOC employees at the facility had recently contracted the virus, so DOC officials began testing inmates who may have come in contact with the employees and found that 56 were positive for the virus. DOC officials said that all those inmates were not showing symptoms.
Those inmates were separated from the remainder of those incarcerated at Hartford Correctional Center as they are monitored by DOC staff.