Illness Hits Newport Prison in Ark

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   1 Dead, Families Worried As Illness Hits Newport Prison 42-year-old!240 in quarantine.
Additional doctors and nurses have been called in to treat others with symptoms and to screen the nearly 900 inmates at the facility.

Corrections officials say the illnesses are happening in housing area three.

We're told 240 inmates living there are under quarantine and are being kept away from the general population.

[link to www.arkansasmatters.com] 

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coyote Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: April 25 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8395	Post Options Post Reply Quote coyote Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Illness Hits Newport Prison in Ark Posted: January 13 2014 at 4:16am
	1 Dead, Families Worried As Illness Hits Newport Prison 42-year-old!240 in quarantine. Additional doctors and nurses have been called in to treat others with symptoms and to screen the nearly 900 inmates at the facility. Corrections officials say the illnesses are happening in housing area three. We're told 240 inmates living there are under quarantine and are being kept away from the general population. [link to www.arkansasmatters.com]
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coyote Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: April 25 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8395	Post Options Post Reply Quote coyote Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 13 2014 at 4:18am
	Scary news! Flu like symptoms.
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	Families Worry After Illnesses at Newport Prison Force Quarantine [link to www.fox16.com]
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	Visitations were canceled over fears that the unknown illness in spreading through some of the nearly 900 inmates at the state-run prison [link to www.arkansasmatters.com]
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arirish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: June 19 2013 Location: Arkansas Status: Offline Points: 39215	Post Options Post Reply Quote arirish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 13 2014 at 1:10pm
	This prison has had several epidemics in the past. one was food poisoning and the other was a bad strep. I think it's pretty common in prisons to quarantine. Any time you have that many people living that close together that you can't send home it's about the only option.
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