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Prisons and jails are coronavirus epicenters – but they were once designed to prevent disease outbreaks

  • Written by Ashley Rubin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii
Calls for help at Chicago's Cook County jail, where hundreds of inmates and staff have COVID-19, April 9, 2020. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images

Jails and prisons around the United States are considering freeing some of their inmates for fear that correctional facilities will become epicenters in the coronavirus pandemic.

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