A halfway house in the Tenderloin run by a private-prison contractor with a controversial record has been locked down because some residents and staff tested positive for COVID, 48hills has learned.
A letter to residents, which was posted on Twitter, states that “we have had a few residents and staff who have recently tested positive for covid-19.” The document carries the name of Maria Richard, director of the Taylor Center, a facility at 111 Taylor run by the Geo Group, a national private-prison operator.
Some residents of the center, who are on parole from state and federal prisons, work outside the facility on a regular basis.
The letter – which reads very much like a directive from a prison, with no options and with threats to send residents back into custody, is here...
Among those potentially impacted by the outbreak is the new editor of the San Francisco Bay View, Keith “Malik” Washington, who lives at the Taylor Center. He has a job, an apartment waiting in the city, and only about three months left until he has completed parole – but despite the outbreak, the federal Bureau of Prisons won’t let him leave.
And after I spoke with Washington about the situation, he told me his cell phone was confiscated and he was given a disciplinary write-up for “unauthorized contact with the public.”
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