Staff Member at Wyoming Women’s Center Tests Positive for COVID-19

The Wyoming Department of Corrections announced Friday that a staff member at the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk has tested positive for COVID-19. According to the news release issued by the WDOC, the staff member’s access within the institution was very limited, and as a result, there does not appear to have been any heightened risk to inmates. Four additional staff members who had extended direct contact with the individual who tested positive are currently in self quarantine. As of early Friday evening, the case was the only confirmed case of COVID-19 within the Wyoming Department of Corrections.

The release also stated that on a separate note,  inmates at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins and the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington have been working to make PPE masks for all WDOC staff and inmates. The work is being done through the Department’s Correctional Industries program. More information on the effort will be provided once protocols are in place.