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Federal Inmates to Make Cloth Virus Masks for Prisoners, Guards
- Prison industries program making masks, gowns, sanitizer
- Correctional officers still seeking more effective N95 masks
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Federal prisoners have started making cloth masks to help protect themselves and the correctional officers who guard them from coronavirus, one in a series of actions to try to quash outbreaks across the inmate population.
The federal prison industries program, known as Unicor, is manufacturing cloth masks for all prisons, while emergency surgical masks are being issued to a limited number of inmates and staff, according to a Bureau of Prisons memo issued on Monday.