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April 11, 2021
Headlines providing more reminders of how COVID meets mass incarceration
A number of notable reads about the state of COVID in incarceration nation in recent days. Here are some headlines and links:
From the AP, "As states expand vaccines, prisoners still lack access"
From Business Insider, "Thousands of inmates given the chance to serve their sentence at home because of COVID-19 might go back to prison cells"
From Reuters, "Thousands of low-level U.S. inmates released in pandemic could be headed back to prison"
Fom the New York Times :
- "I’m Incarcerated. This Is My Covid Lockdown Story."
- "Incarcerated and Infected: How the Virus Tore Through the U.S. Prison System"
- "Covid-19: Infections Among U.S. Prisoners Have Been Triple Those of Other Americans"
From Undark magazine, "Prisons Are Covid Hotspots. But Vaccine Access Remains Patchy."
April 11, 2021 at 10:16 PM | Permalink