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Collected Item: “Appeals court tosses order that required face masks, hand sanitizer for inmates at geriatric Texas prison”

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Appeals court tosses order that required face masks, hand sanitizer for inmates at geriatric Texas prison

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article

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Two inmates filed suit in late March asking for better practices to protect them from covid. The judge sided with the inmates but by that time the Texas Department of Criminal Justice had already enacted similar protocols across the state, though many argue they are not followed.
Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, is also quoted in this article saying, he "felons deserve personal protective equipment over frontline warriors." This is the same man that was quoted on new across the nation as saying that older people should be willing to die from Covid to keep the economy open for the benefit of their grandchildren.

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law suit, incarceration, prison, geriatric, PPE, masks, hand sanitizer, social distancing

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https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/05/texas-prison-coronavirus-lawsuit/

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Jolie McCullough

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2020-06-05
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