| The Pandemic in Prison
You can’t lock it up without letting it loose.
Bonnie Kristian
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The
advice to slow and curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is by now
familiar: Practice social distancing. Don’t congregate in large groups.
And always, always wash your hands.
But
what if you live with another person—or two or three—in a 6-by-8 foot
cell, and you eat every meal in a cafeteria that seats dozens, and you
have no soap?
That’s
the situation facing around 1.5 million people in state and federal
prisons in America and another 700,000 in local jails. As the ...
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
The Pandemic in Prison
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