Pennsylvania puts all prisons on lockdown after reports of staff sickened by unknown substance

Published time: 29 Aug, 2018 19:06

Edited time: 29 Aug, 2018 19:44

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has puts its facilities on lockdown after reports multiple staff members were sickened by unknown substances . This comes after a similar emergency in an Ohio prison.

"The safety and security of our employees is my number one concern,” John Wetzel, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary, said as he announced the lockdown.

“Our state prisons, especially, those in the western part of the state, have experienced recent incidents in which employees have been sickened and we need to get to the bottom of this issue now.”

All state prisons are under immediate lockdown. More info: https://t.co/yb2AMh91f0pic.twitter.com/AX0y7ddQdc

— PA Department of Corrections (@CorrectionsPA) August 29, 2018

Effective immediately, all of the state’s 24 prisons are locked down, all visits have been suspended, mailrooms indefinitely closed to non-legal mail, and staff have been instructed to don protective clothing and equipment, the department said on Wednesday.

Earlier on Wednesday, 24 people were treated by doctors from overdose symptoms at a prison in Ohio. Five nurses, 15 correctional officers, an inmate and several others at the Ross Correctional Institution felt sick after exposure to a substance, believed to be some kind of opiate. Those affected were given a special medication, used to quickly reverse opioid overdoses, called naloxone.

https://www.rt.com/usa/437184-pennsylvania-prisons-lockdown-stuff-poisonning/

A new study has found that global gun deaths have passed 250,000 per year, with the US and five other countries in the Americas making up half the total fatalities. Its writers call it “a major public health problem for humanity.”

Tallying gun deaths in 195 different countries and territories from 1990 to 2016, the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that gun deaths rose from 209,000 deaths in 1990 to 251,000 in 2016.

Two thirds of the global deaths were homicides, with 27 percent attributed to suicides and 9 percent were accidental.

In the US, where the polarizing issue of gun ownership and regulation has been at the fore of public debate in the wake of recent mass shootings, gun deaths rose from 35,800 in 1990 to 37,200 in 2016.

However, the majority of US gun deaths were suicides, which increased from 19,700 to 23,800 during the same period. At 6 per 100,000, gun suicides the US ranks second for gun suicides behind Greenland who recorded 22 per 100,000. However, in Greenland, that just amounted to 11 deaths.

https://www.rt.com/news/437146-gun-deaths-hit-quarter-million/

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