Together, Geiger Corrections Center in Airway Heights and Spokane County Jail recorded nine COVID-19 cases Friday. By Sunday, they had 39 cases. Tuesday, there were 73.

On average, COVID cases have doubled every day in the county’s detention centers for four days straight.

Cynthia Manycolors, whose son Bjorn Manycolors tested positive at Geiger, said men on his floor moved to the Spokane County Jail to be tested and sorted.

The men did not get showers or clean clothes for four days, Manycolors said. When they returned to Geiger, they were “understandably” placed all on one floor, she said. They are sleeping three or four to a room that normally holds one or two men and they’re wearing masks at all times, including in their cells.

While her son had told her about guards improperly wearing masks or refusing to wear them continuing through last week, he’s noticed a change and told her all corrections officers are wearing masks properly now, she said.

Spokane County Detention Services is working closely with the Spokane Regional Health District and the Washington State Department of Health to deal with positive cases. As of Monday, all nonpositive inmates are being tested twice per week.

As of Friday afternoon, the health district was not recommending mass testing at Geiger, but by Saturday afternoon, the district had reversed course, recommending testing all Geiger inmates, said Deanna Stark, health district spokesperson.