Residents, guards say Marcy psychiatric center is coronavirus hothouse [View all]
ALBANY — At least 18 people — nine inmates and nine officers — have been infected with COVID-19 at the Central New York Psychiatric Center which houses sex offenders who have been released from prison but are civilly confined in the hospital.
Technically, the inmates are patients and the guards are supervisors, attendants and therapists, but both groups say they’ve seen alarming lapses in the precautions put in place to slow the pandemic’s spread at the institution in Marcy.
“It’s basically a death trap in here,” said one resident, who declined to give his full name.
He said three separate wards in the facility were under quarantine but the patients, almost all men, crowd together in the halls when staff members dispense the psychoactive drugs and other medications the patients take each day.
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