Mendota correctional officers hospitalized after exposure to contaminated mail, officials say

MENDOTA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two correctional officers are recovering aft being exposed to contaminated message astatine a Mendota prison.

Officials accidental that portion the 2 officers were sorting message astatine the national correctional instauration Mendota facility, they became sick aft handling incoming message suspected of being contaminated with drugs.

They were instantly taken to a adjacent infirmary for treatment.

Union leaders are sounding the alarm connected the inclination of officers being exposed to contaminated message and are demanding action.

In 2024, U.S. Penitentiary Atwater correctional serviceman Marc Fischer became sick aft coming into interaction with a substance successful the message room.

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Fischer died astatine the hospital, and his household said helium was conscionable weeks distant from status astatine the time.

The national is calling for Congress to walk H.R. 1046, the "Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl successful Postal Mail astatine Federal Prisons Act."

The enactment would necessitate screening processes for message astatine each national prisons.

It is not known if immoderate arrests person been made for the incidental astatine the Mendota facility.