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Correctional officers are driving the pandemic in prisons

  • Written by Danielle Wallace, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University
imageWhile prison may isolate people from the larger community, it does not isolate them from COVID-19.Scott Olson/Staff/Getty Images News

Prisons and jails have hosted some of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S., with some facilities approaching 4,000 cases. In the U.S., which has some of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the world, 9 in...

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