The prison where former “Fuller House” star Lori Loughlin is currently serving her two month prison sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal has just been hit with a “dangerous” COVID-19 outbreak.
Mercury News [1] reported that in the weeks since Loughlin surrendered to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California on October 30, the prison has been hit with an outbreak of COVID-19 that has infected “numerous” inmates. This has then led to conditions that are overcrowded, “dangerous,” and legally questionable, according to lawyers and prison advocates.
Loughlin has been placed in quarantine amidst the coronavirus outbreak, and as of this writing, she is reportedly being held in a storage building that’s been converted into a makeshift isolation unit. While the unit has showers and toilets, prison consultant Holli Coulman said that it is not equipped with heat or hot water, and that inmates must sleep on mats on a cold concrete floor.
Coulman added that if any of the fifty women being housed in this unit, including Loughlin, test positive for COVID-19, they will be given no medication to alleviate symptoms. Instead, treatment is only being made available to inmates when their condition becomes life-threatening.
“The human rights violations are off the charts for taking inmates from the current environment that’s bad and putting them into these makeshift areas, which are worse,” said Coulman, a former federal inmate herself who now represents multiple inmates in the Dublin prison. “They wouldn’t pass any type of inspection, and the (U.S. Bureau of Prisons) knows that.”
Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Justin Long said that as of Friday, eleven inmates and six staff members have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and recovered, while 325 inmates have been tested.
Though sources have been saying that Loughlin is a wreck, Coulman said that she was told that the actress is doing “OK.” Loughlin has gotten to make three phone calls so far since beginning her sentence, so it’s likely she’s been in contact with her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, and their two daughters.
Loughlin and Giannulli were sentenced to two and five months in prison respectively for allegedly paying $500,000 to have their daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as members of the crew team, even though neither girl had ever rowed before. Giannulli is set to begin his sentence this coming week, on November 19.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com [2] and is used by permission.
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