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| El Paso County detention inmates on work release climb into a transport van after working at the Medical Examiner's office in El Paso, Texas on November 13, 2020. - Inmates on work release are assisting the medical examiners office to relieve pressure during the recent spike in coronavirus deaths. Due to a recent spike in coronavirus deaths, El Paso County officials have brought in five mobile morgue trailers with five more on standby. Within the past 48 hours there have been 45 recorded COVID-19 deaths. |
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Inmates help move bodies as they pile up at El Paso Medical Examiner's office
KTSM-TV
Sat November 14, 2020
Area: El Paso (Las Cruces)
EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso County Sheriff's spokesperson confirms that inmates at the County Detention Facility are assisting the El Paso Medical examiner with the overflow of bodies at the morgue.
The inmates were seen at the Medical Examiner's office in full PPE gear on Friday, assisting near the mobile morgues and inside the building. The spokesperson did not give further detail about the inmates' formal tasks, only that they were "helping them there."
As KTSM previously reported, El Paso has ten mobile morgues set up at the Medical Examiner's office for the overflow of bodies awaiting autopsy. As of Friday, there were 741 confirmed deaths related to COVID-19 and 369 additional deaths under investigation. The number of deaths under investigation has jumped 137 - from 232 on November 1.
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