Fewer than 10 Oconee inmates tested positive

In eight months’ time, fewer than 10 incoming prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Oconee Detention Center in Walhalla.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says, “We have been quarantining new inmates coming into the jail for 10 days but have had some to test positive over the last several months.  None required hospitalization.”  Crenshaw says the practice has worked and there has been no detected spread of the virus among the mixed jail population.