The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced 18 cases of COVID-19 at the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin.
That’s double the number of infections from three weeks ago.
But the immigrant inmates fear more might be sick… and call for full testing of the facility.
Up to several hundred non-US citizen prisoners have launched a hunger strike to protest the lack of coronavirus testing at the facility.
North Lake inmates say many people are sick and not being treated.
The advocacy group... No Detention Centers in Michigan… received word of the strike on Friday… and claim some inmates have died from the virus.
Inmate Jose Sanchez says… in a call from the facility... that it takes too long for some to get treatment.
“Last week... They just took two of them… they were really sick and they kept on asking to get seen. And they wouldn’t come and see them.”
He says some inmates are locked in their cells for 23 hours to keep the virus at bay.