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SABOTAGE:
How Harris government policies
have increased the use of sick time
by Ontario correctional officers
Hygiene
Basic sanitation is essential to good health in an enclosed
institutional space such as a correctional facility. 45 per cent
of institutions rated their hygiene conditions as
"poor" or "very poor." Foul air inside adds
to the problem.
Disease
Dirty, overcrowded institutions create the conditions for
outbreaks of serious disease. Many inmates have lived in
unsanitary conditions outside the institution, and they bring
their illnesses with them. In recent months, correctional staff
have tested positive for tuberculosis as a result of exposure to
sick inmates. Other inmates, with intravenous drug habits, are
more likely to carry potentially fatal bloodborne diseases,
which may be transmitted to correctional staff through assaults,
biting, and so on. As with other high maintenance inmates,
corrections management is often ill-equipped and ill-prepared to
deal with sick inmates. The result is sick, infected staff.
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