PrimeCare Medical furnishes healthcare services at the Northampton County jail. As a result of an explosion of new COVID-19 cases, it has recommended that the work release program be suspended. The county is listening to its medical advisers. It has suspended this modified type of confinement, in which inmates can go out into the community and work to pay off fines and costs. This suspension should last two months.
In addition, the court is scouring the 635-inmate population to consider possible furloughs for nonviolent offenders.
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