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