Brittany Whiting worries it’s just a matter of time until her fiance gets COVID-19. And neither of them can do anything about it.
That’s because Ramarco Jarret is serving a two-year sentence for drug trafficking at the Belmont Correctional Institution in St. Clairsville in eastern Ohio.
Whiting, who lives in Springfield, said that because of crowded prison conditions, odds are high that he’ll contract the coronavirus before his sentence is up in June 2021. Ohio inmates and prison staff are among the most at risk during the pandemic. As of Friday, 3,837 of the state’s 48,000 prisoners and 358 prison employees have tested positive for COVID-19. Seventeen inmates and one corrections officer have died.
