Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

Gov. John Bel Edwards has put out a state directive advising all residents of the state of Louisiana to stay home, or where you currently reside to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The public would be under the assumption that means everyone. The exception is only if it's necessary to travel. One would assume that anyone who is sick, would be moved with the utmost precaution, and that would be to a medical facility. But, according to sources which allege, there may be up to five boys at the Swanson Youth Facility in Monroe who allegedly have been transferred (arrived March 24) here, some with very high temperatures. High temperatures is one of major symptoms of the coronavirus. The boys were allegedly transferred from a facility in Bridge City, a community on the West Bank across the river from New Orleans. They were transferred because they allegedly tried to escape but were subsequently sent to Monroe. The boys were supposedly checked at the entrance gate for temperature readings which is supposed to be the protocol for incoming inmates. They are then sent to the medical facility where there would be a detailed exam. There are questions such as, were those inmates given exams before they left the Bridge City facility? What were the results? If three of the boys at Swanson had high temperatures, what happened to them? Were they isolated from the rest of the population? What about Swanson personnel that encountered the boys? Did the governor's directive also apply to inmates at all the state's correctional facilities, and not just the general public? Why transfer inmates from the New Orleans area where there is the highest reported cases of people with COVID-19? The community needs to know the truth, because as to withhold information from the community, could potentially put it in further danger