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Times Staff Report
As the Lake County Jail remained on medical quarantine for an outbreak of infections Friday, Porter County Jail administrators were reporting no problems in handling displaced inmates.
Porter County began accepting inmates bound for the Lake County facility this week after the Crown Point facility reported a quarantine Thursday because of an infection among some inmates.
Lake County officials have agreed to hold nonemergency arrests to a minimum. And as of 1:30 p.m. Friday, Porter had only received two inmates from Lake County.
Mike Higgins, county police spokesman, said Friday he cannot comment on earlier speculation inmates are suffering from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial infection.
Nick Doffin, county health department administrator, said officials first were alerted to the problem by a complaint from a Cedar Lake woman.
He said the jail's staff already was taking preventative measures to isolate affected inmates before health department officials visited the jail about noon Friday. He said the infection was contagious, but declined to further identify it because of federal privacy rules.
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