July 26, 2021: BOP COVID-19 and COMPASSIONATE RELEASE UPDATE

Quick Facts: Currently positive-testing inmates: 214 (down from 225) Currently positive-testing staff: 137 (up from 139) Recovered inmates: 43,285 (down from 43,230) Recovered staff: 6,975 (up from 6,972) Institutions with the largest number of currently positive-testing inmates:

Texarcana FCI: 58 (down from 158)

McCreary USP: 28

Houston FDC: 25 (up from 17)

Institutions with the largest number of currently positive-testing staff:

Pollock: 7 (unchanged)

Brooklyn MDC: 5 (unchanged)

Coleman I USP: 5

System-wide testing results: Presently, BOP has 130,504 federal inmates in BOP-managed institutions and 14,209 in community-based facilities. Today's stats: Completed tests: 117,483 (down from 117,491) Positive tests: 42,897 (down from 42,905)

Total Vaccine doses distributed: 203,580

In the news: The Sentencing Commission just published additional stats regarding the granting of compassionate release in 2020. Here's the month-by-month breakdown. As you can see, the trend is toward denying an increasing percentage of applications. However, these stats do not extend to 2021 so it's not clear whether grants picked up as COVID increased during the first through months of 2021.

Death Watch: The BOP has reported no additional inmate fatalities, leaving the number of inmate fatalities at 240. Five of these inmates died while on home confinement. Staff fatalities remain at 4.