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Collected Item: “Freed From Prison, Dead from COVID-19, Not Even Counted”

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Freed From Prison, Dead from COVID-19, Not Even Counted

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article

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The Butner prison complex in North Carolina is also a medical facility. Basically a prison that is set up to take care of inmates with chronic illness and disease, like cancer, etc. This facility has so mismanaged the covid pandemic that the few people being released early in an attempt to slow the spread were released, only to find out they already had covid and died after boarding planes to travel home.

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Butner, North Carolina, incarceration, prison, medical prison, air travel, testing, outbreak

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https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/10/freed-from-prison-dead-from-covid-19-not-even-counted

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Joseph Neff and Dan Kane

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2020-07-10
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