By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Two inmates at the same jail where two major figures from the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak are being confined have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, but jail officials say no other inmates were exposed to the virus.
Officials at the Livingston County Jail said that the two infected inmates had recently been tranferred from another jail and they had not been released into the general population when the infections were detected. They are currently under quarantine.
Among the other inmates at the jail are Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin, who are awaiting trial on second degree murder charges.
Cadden and Chin are already serving federal prison sentences following their conviction on racketeering and mail fraud charges. Cadden was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company blamed for the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
Chin was a supervising pharmacist in the clean room where fungus laden steroids were produced.
Another former NECC pharmacist, Gene Svirskiy, is scheduled to be released from federal prison later this week and will serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement.
Svirskiy was serving his 30 month sentence at the federal prison in Ayer, Mass. where there has been a covid-19 outbreak.
U.S. Bureau of Prisons official approved Svirskiy's release citing an order from U.S. Attorney General William Barr. Previously U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns denied a request from Svirskiy that he be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement. His sentence is due to end in August of next year.
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