Latest BOP numbers with still more COVID cases, and more prisoner deaths, at still more federal facilities

This post from last Monday noted that the data set forth on BOP’s COVID-19 Update page in the early evening of April 6 reported 196 inmates and 63 staffers positive for COVID-19.  Though not then reported by BOP, there were I believe five or six official prisoner deaths as of this time last week.  Now, just a week later, here is the BOP’s official accounting:

As of 04/13/2020, there are 388 federal inmates and 201 BOP staff who have confirmed positive test results for COVID-19 nationwide.  Currently, 19 inmates and 12 staff have recovered.  There have been 13 federal inmate deaths and 0 BOP staff member deaths attributed to COVID-19 disease.   

40 BOP facilities and 9 RRCs affected nationwide.

I fear even these official numbers are likely to continue to get worse in the days ahead, and press reports suggest that I suspect the “real” numbers are worse still.

To provide some context for these number, consider that the federal inmate population is “only” 175,000, and yet there are already 13 official COVID deaths within the federal inmate population.  This is more COVID deaths than are being reported right now by the Worldometer accounting in seven distinct US states: Wyoming (population nearly 600,000), Alaska (nearly 750,000), North Dakota (nearly 800,000), South Dakota (nearly 900,000), Montana (over 1 million), Hawaii (nearly 1.5 million), and West Virginia (population nearly 1.8 million).  This is also more COVID deaths than are reported right now by the Worldometer accounting in countries such as Qatar (population nearly 3 million), New Zealand (nearly 5 million), Slovakia (nearly 5.5 million) Singapore (over 5.5 million).