This story describes how hundreds of prisoners and staff in the federal prison systems have contracted the Coronavirus, resulting in Justice Department inspection to assess facility compliance with mitigation best practices.

The review will cover Bureau of Prisons facilities, halfway houses, and private prisons. According to the Associated Press, “451 federal inmates and 280 Bureau of Prisons staff members had tested positive for the virus. Seventeen infected inmates have died at federal prisons across the U.S. since late March.”