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Correctional officers are driving the pandemic in prisons

  • Written by Danielle Wallace, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University
Correctional officers are driving the pandemic in prisonsWhile prison may isolate people from the larger community, it does not isolate them from COVID-19.Scott Olson/Staff/Getty Images News

Prisons and jails have hosted some of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S., with some facilities approaching 4,000 cases. In the U.S., which has some of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the world, 9 in...

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