LENOX TOWNSHIP, MI – More than 100 prisoners in southeast Michigan received the wrong coronavirus test results, the Michigan Department of Corrections said.
At the Macomb Correctional Center, 54 men were told they tested positive while 54 others were informed they were negative for the virus, the Associated Press reports. However, the results were actually the reverse, said MDOC spokesman Chris Gautz.
The mix-up led to the prisoners being housed in the wrong areas, he said. Those who test positive are housed in segregated units while those who are test negative remain with the general population.
The department recently concluded testing the statewide population of 38,000 prisoners; 10%, about 3,800, were infected and 68 have died, including 5 at the Macomb facility.
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