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Collected Item: “Florida inmate, prison worker COVID-19 cases soar”

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Florida inmate, prison worker COVID-19 cases soar

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article

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This article highlights the amazing speed at which Covid-19 spreads through the nation's correctional facilities. Over twelve thousand incarcerated people have the virus, of which sixty five have died.
As an example of how quickly the virus spreads the article sites the Taylor Correctional Institute going from 25 cases on August 1st to 564 on August 10th. To date over seventy-three thousand tests have been conducted in the states correctional facilities.

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incarceration, prison, Florida, testing, cases, death, defacto death sentence

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https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2020/08/10/florida-inmate-prison-worker-covid-19-cases-soar/

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News Service Of Florida

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2020-08-10
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