Fifth Circuit Stays Injunction on Texas Prisons in Covid-19 Suit

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice can hold off on implementing, for now, the requirements of an injunction mandating its Covid-19 prevention policies, the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

The court granted a stay of the injunction, pending the appeal. The department would be irreparably injured without a stay of the injunction because several of the requirements, including those to test all inmates for Covid-19 and to clean common surfaces every 30 minutes for 15 hours a day, would create immense administrative problems, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said.

Two inmates at the Wallace Pack Unit, a ...