The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) is moving all the inmates at the Wichita Work Release Facility to Lansing Correctional Facility. The transfer of about 100 inmates is happening Thursday morning.
Leadership at KDOC and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment made the decision to move the inmates.
It comes the day after the county announced a cluster of coronavirus cases at the Wichita Work Release Facility (WWRF).
The KDOC website shows that 38 inmates at WWRF have tested positive for coronavirus. 34 of those inmates are asymptomatic. One WWRF employee has also tested positive.
The KDOC says 750 Lansing inmates and 88 workers have tested positive for the coronavirus. Three inmates and two workers have died.
Some WWRF inmates who had already been at Lansing earlier in the coronavirus pandemic have threatened to sue KDOC.
