As of Thursday
afternoon, two of Victoria's prisons – Ravenhall and
Fulham correctional centres – remained in lockdown, while
COVID-19 precautionary measures had been lifted on another four
state correctional facilities.
Six Victorian prisons were locked down on Tuesday, after a GEO
prison officer, who regularly works at Melbourne's Ravenhall
gaol, tested positive for the deadly virus.
The guard had been in self-isolation
since 16 July, after learning he'd been in close contact
with a confirmed COVID-19 case.
This is not the only time the virus has found its way into the
Victorian corrections system, as since last Friday, two inmates
have tested positive whilst being held in protective quarantine on
their way into the Metropolitan Remand Centre.
