El Paso County jail inmates helping handle overflow of Covid-19 victims’ bodies at the morgue
EL PASO, Texas -- Inmates from the El Paso County Detention Facility are assisting the Medical Examiner's Office by moving deceased bodies into mobile morgues.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego confirmed with ABC-7 that trustee inmates are helping morgue personnel who are overwhelmed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Trustee inmates are inmates with good behavior whose crimes are low-grade misdemeanors, and they work on a voluntary basis.
The EPSCO said four to eight inmates have been assisting everyday for eight hours since Monday.
Inmates are provided full personal protective equipment while they work, according to a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office who also said the inmates are accompanied by a sheriff's deputy and two jail detention officers.
Samaniego said the Medical Examiner's Office recently reached out for help. He said the assistance from inmates is only temporarily as the morgue awaits help from the Texas National Guard.
However, there's no word yet on when guardsmen are expected to arrive.
Samaniego said as of Saturday there were 145 bodies being held at the morgue facilities.
Ten mobile morgues have been sent to help with capacity at the morgue - but one is not operational. Samaniego said five of those are currently being used to store bodies.
LOL @ those jail clothes!!!
Funny delanders? Enjoying others misfortunes? Reminds me of defeated maggot Trump. Where is he now? On the way out! Lol.
That is Fero2a’s style. I wonder when he is going to start using his name again. The KKKVIA trolls relish in other people’s misfortunates.
Misfortune? They’re in jail on their own accord.
I did 75 years in Alcatraz so I can say that.
Delanders is a white maggot.
alberto is a brown maggot.
He just has his female panties is a watt since Trump got beat by Sleepy Joe Biden!!!’
Inmate fire fighting squads save millions of dollars worth of property and hundreds of lives during fire seasons in the west each year. They are our fellow citizens. Of course this is a concept lost to the Nazi filth of our nation.
Is that what you did while you were serving time? You know, for child molesting?
Jeff Allen it amazing that at your age you still have LIP. Someone needs to bust it.
Youre welcome to come and try
alberto and his 25 personalities are all cowards.
See what I mean? Jeff Allen prime example of Nazi filth. Soon to disappear. His fence coming down and him leaving El Paso and his failed brick business.
This wall is going nowhere, and neither am i
Oh by the way, got more illegals last night.
No you didn’t. We watch your property. No one was there last night.
Lol that’s Jeff Allen? A brick seller? Lol. No wonder his IQ.
“I have two bricks……. $1. Real complicated.
Now Jeff Allen thinks he has all the answers and solutions. Classic uneducated chip in his shoulder folk.
No chip, just a patriot
Patriots don’t support a president who is a racist, who endangers the national security, who lies continually, or abuses immigrants. You sir, are the exact example of a despot taking refuge in patriotism. Your wall is coming down, you are going to be prosecuted along with the other Nazi filth who mishandled the funds sent in by the human trash who wanted a wall, and you are going to leave El Paso. These things are going to happen so get ready scumbag.
The only one to leave El Paso, is your sorry ass, back to prison.