{"id":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-013","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; State level","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","eco":"","issuer":"Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (Secretary John E. Wetzel)","authority":"61 Pa.C.S. § 301; 37 Pa. Code § 93.3","instrument":"PA DOC COVID-19 page (as archived Mar. 21, 2020), with the Mar. 13, 2020 release \u0027Department of Corrections Cancels Visits Statewide, Begins Enhanced Screenings of ALL Employees\u0027","title":"All visitation suspended effective Mar. 13, 2020; enhanced screening of every person entering a facility; inmates with flu-like symptoms from counties not accepted; audits, inspections and reentry job fairs postponed; Training Academy classes ceased Mar. 16; Pennsylvania Correctional Industries redirected to soap and masks","dateIssued":"2020-03-13","effective":"2020-03-13","end":"Visitation remained suspended system-wide until video visits and later limited in-person visits resumed (in-person visits resumed in stages in 2021); screening continued through 2021","startDate":"2020-03-13","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","GATH","HC","OTHER"],"addressees":["all individuals entering any State Correctional Institution","visitors","county jails transferring inmates","Community Corrections staff and reentrants","vendors and auditors"],"clause":"All visitation was suspended effective March 13. DOC will review in 2 weeks. Attorneys and select members of the PA Prison Society are permitted access if they pass the enhanced screening.... Inmates who have flu like symptoms from counties will not be accepted.... Each facility is conducting enhanced screening for all individuals entering a facility. No one will be permitted to enter a facility who has a fever over 100.4 or exhibits signs of cold or flu.... Postponing audits, inspections and reentry job fairs that were scheduled for March and April. All training at the DOC Training Academy--outside of basic training and the inmate culinary academy--has ceased as of March 16.","enforcement":"Conditions of access to State Correctional Institutions under 37 Pa. Code ch. 93; 61 Pa.C.S. § 301","functions":["EMP screening of every vendor and contractor at 24 SCIs","VS visitors excluded","HR training and job fairs cancelled","CB county jails (symptomatic transfers refused)","SC Correctional Industries redirected"],"notes":"Reached the reentry-employer sector (job fairs), auditing and inspection contractors, training vendors and every supplier entering an SCI.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cor.pa.gov/Pages/COVID-19.aspx","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200321203403/https://www.cor.pa.gov/Pages/COVID-19.aspx","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":306764,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","url":"/library/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-013","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-013","citation":"Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (Secretary John E. Wetzel), PA DOC COVID-19 page (as archived Mar. 21, 2020), with the Mar. 13, 2020 release \u0027Department of Corrections Cancels Visits Statewide, Begins Enhanced Screenings of ALL Employees\u0027 (Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-013)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":[]}