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Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 31, 2020

Nine hundred seventy four inmates have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus at South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, a private prison managed by CoreCivic, the Tennessean reports. The Tennessee Department of Correction said the cases were uncovered after a second round of mass testing. Of the 1,410 inmates tested for the virus, 168 results are still pending. Both staff members and inmates were showing symptoms of the virus, but it was unclear how many staff members from the facility had tested positive. This is the largest outbreak reported at a state prison in months, following Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville and Bledsoe County Correctional Complex in Pikeville, both of which were among the country's largest coronavirus clusters with hundreds of active cases inside the prisons.