Washington Examiner: Coronavirus infections in prisons to surpass 50,000 within days

The Justice Action Network, a bipartisan criminal justice reform organization, predicted Wednesday that the total number of cases in all prisons, not including county jails, will hit 50,000 “within days.” 

“Fifty thousand. This horrifying number of infections and deaths pains us but does not surprise us,” the organization’s president and executive director, Holly Harris, said in a statement. “Congress must ensure in the next relief bill that local officials have the resources they need to reduce incarceration and avoid reaching catastrophic numbers like these, but lawmakers have not done enough to date.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavirus-infections-in-prisons-to-surpass-50-000-within-days

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