https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/22/santa-clara-county-jail-covid-19-surge-left-no-space-for-quarantine/

Health officials overseeing medical care in the Santa Clara County jail system say a record surge in COVID-19 cases this month, centered on the Elmwood men’s jail in Milpitas, got so bad that they couldn’t adequately quarantine people because they literally ran out of space.

They wrote in a memo last week to county law enforcement, prosecutors and public defenders that quarantine periods were reduced from 14 days to 10 days in response to the surge, which saw 202 in-custody infections since the beginning of November. That’s more than a quarter of all the South Bay jail infections recorded since the start of the pandemic.