More Businesses Challenging Gov. Wolf’s Order Closing ‘Non-Life-Sustaining’ Businesses

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state corrections officers’ union wants the prison system to stop all transfers of inmates as a preventative measure against the new coronavirus spreading between institutions. Corrections officers’ union president Larry Blackwell says moving prisoners between facilities risks unnecessarily spreading the virus inside institutions. He wants it to freeze until the virus is under control. Corrections Secretary John Wetzell says that’s not a realistic plan. No case of the coronavirus has been reported in the state prison system. Meanwhile, more businesses are challenging Gov. Tom Wolf’s order closing “non-life-sustaining” businesses and Allegheny County reported another death from COVID-19, bringing the total reported in Pennsylvania to seven.


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