Collected Item: “70% of Texas prisoners tested have the coronavirus. Experts say it's time for more testing and fewer inmates.”
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70% of Texas prisoners tested have the coronavirus. Experts say it's time for more testing and fewer inmates.
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article
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Texas appears to have the worst outbreak of any state prisons across the nation and many relatives of incarcerated people believe the count is low. Inmates fear telling staff they don't feel well, infected and healthy people are taking showers together. As of the articles writing 1% of inmates across the state have been tested and 70% are infected with Covid. Many worry what effect this will have on the larger communities outside the correctional facilities.
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incarceration, prison, death, defacto death sentence, public health, testing
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https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/04/coronavirus-texas-prisons-testing/
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Jolie McCullough
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2020-05-04