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Covid lockdown: for incarcerated Americans, pandemic hardships are unremitting

Covid lockdown: for incarcerated Americans, pandemic hardships are unremitting


Covid lockdown: for incarcerated Americans, pandemic hardships are unremitting
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Mwalimu Shakur could only talk for six minutes.

Inside prisons across the US, 34 of every 100 people are known to have been infected with Covid, nearly four times the infection rate of the general US population. Public health researchers cite crowding as a major contributing factor; several state prison systems and the federal Bureau of Prisons are operating past 100% capacity.

For both House-Hay and Alice, whose families live hundreds of miles from their respective prisons, the curtailed lengths have been prohibitive.

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