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    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, prisoners have been subject to especially grueling conditions. Learn more here

    Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration? 
    The New Yorker May 18, 2020

    Drawing Line Between Mass Incarceration, Unrest Across Nation

    Public News Service June 2, 2020

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    COVID-19 and the global fight against mass incarceration 
    TNI June 3, 2020
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    Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration?
    The New Yorker May 18, 2020
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    Fighting Mass Incarceration Amid the Pandemic

    NationAction May 12, 2020

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    When Jail Becomes Normal
    New York Times June 3, 2020
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    Nearly 1,000 inmates test positive for COVID-19 at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison
    ABC News, June 9, 2020

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    America First: The ticking time bomb that is COVID-19 and the Prison–industrial complex
    El Tecolote, May 21, 2020
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    Coronavirus was Paul Manafort's ticket home. Many other old, ill, nonviolent inmates are still in prison
    USA Today June 9, 2020
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    Texas Democratic Judicial Candidates Pledge to Reduce Mass Incarceration
    Courthouse News June 4, 2020
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    Appeals court nixes order to shrink prison rolls because of virus
    Politico, June 9, 2020 

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    Experts, judge voice concern as NC's prisons resume moving inmates amid COVID-19 spread
    Wral, June 9, 2020

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    COVID-19 Infections Rising At San Quentin State Prison, KAWL, June 8, 2020

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