This is an excerpt from a larger article that appears in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.Butler County jail confirmed two more inmates have contracted the coronavirus, bringing the total to three.Butler County Prison Warden Joe DeMore confirmed the jail's first virus case on Dec. 11. After reports of more inmates exhibiting virus symptoms, DeMore confirmed Monday that another two inmates tested positive for the virus last week.Since the beginning of December, DeMore said, the jail has been on “modified operations,” DeMore said. On Monday, he lifted those restrictions after determining the sick inmates had recovered. Several family members with inmates in the jail described the modified operations as a 23-hour lockdown protocol. Citing security concerns, DeMore declined to comment on the “modified operations.”Family members of several inmates contend that the jail has experienced a surge in inmates exhibiting symptoms, most of whom are not being tested. DeMore said those claims are false.

This is an excerpt from a larger article that appears in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.