Update: 23 Inmates, 5 Staff at Lompoc Prison Test Positive for COVID-19
North County Residents Worry Untested, Asymptomatic Staff Are Further Spreading the Virus
[Update 4/8:] Nine more inmates and three more staff at the Lompoc prison have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total of positive cases at the federal prison to 28. The original story follows.
Fourteen inmates and two staff members at the medium-security federal prison in Lompoc ― officially known as United States Penitentiary, Lompoc, or USP Lompoc ― have tested positive for COVID-19, according to information published Friday on the Bureau of Prisons website.
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) operates 22 penitentiaries throughout the United States. Only two ― the correctional institutes in Danbury, Connecticut, and Oakdale, Louisiana ― have reported more COVID-19 cases than Lompoc. As of Friday, five Oakdale inmates had died from the virus.
