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  2020-04-02

  Inside Rikers During the Coronavirus Outbreak

  This video shows one families struggle to get early release for their loved one from Rikers Island jail in New York. His sister poses the ten million dollar question, does someone who committed a crime deserve to die? This is the possibility many inmates face in the time of coronavirus because the only way we currently know to slow the spread of the virus is through distance. Something that cannot be done when you're sleeping twelve inches away from another person.
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  2020-04-02

  This is what it's like to be in prison during coronavirus

  An inmate with a contraband cell phone talks to Vice News about what its like to be in a California prison during the pandemic. He explains they cannot get enough soap, he is less worried about getting the virus from a fellow inmate and more worried about contracting it from one of the corrections staff. While the prison is screening employees, as the interviewee explains covid can be spread by both pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic. individuals.
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  2020-06-22

  VICE News: Inmates Dying of Covid

  As inmates across the US die, many families are not sure if they have died from covid-19 because inmates are not being tested and finding out after the inmate passes requires families to pay out of pocket for an autopsy. This video follows families in New Jersey, a state whose prison population has been hit hard by covid-19. Covid has shed a light on many inequities across American society and the inequities suffered by inmates and families are terrible in normal times but are even worse due to the pandemic.