The injuries are not considered life threatening.

Eight staff and 40 inmates are infected with COVID-19 and a third of inmates are in quarantine at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center.

Nineteen employees of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office and 13 inmates at the county jail are also infected.

All jail inmates and staff will be tested Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday night, the Public Defender Service filed a motion asking a judge to order the release of all inmates sentenced on a misdemeanor charge.

It includes banning solitary confinement for youth inmates.

The judge denied the relocation request.

The Department of Corrections says links between the death and the heat are “totally, totally unsubstantiated.”

Crumbling infrastructure, active vermin infestations, a leaking roof, moldy walls, and broken plumbing are among the problems plaguing the city’s prison population.

Right now, prosecutors can charge youths as adults without judicial review.