After having special COVID-19 protocols in place since March 19th, the Rock County Jail is seeing it’s first few cases of COVID-19 among inmates.
Commander Erik Chellevold says the Sheriff’s Office has been fortunate until this week.
The lack of confirmed cases could be attributed to the fact that until this week the Sheriff’s Office had conducted very few actual tests on inmates.
Chellevold says prior to this week only three inmates had received COVID-19 tests at the jail. Some inmates received tests prior to entering the inmate population and others quarantined for at least two weeks before entering the population.
After conducting contact tracing on the three inmates that tested positive this week, 74 more inmates were tested. The results of those tests are pending.
