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Louisiana’s COVID-19 Prisoner Furlough Panel Next to Useless
by Ed Lyon
On June 5, 2020, as Louisiana entered the second phase of its reopening program following shutdowns ordered to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC) suspended a panel it had appointed less than two months earlier to consider state prisoners for ...
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- North Carolina Prisoners at Deadliest Federal Prison File Suit on COVID-19 Response, by Matthew Clarke
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Sixth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Sheriff in Tennessee Prisoner’s Assault Case, by David Reutter
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- COVID-19 Hits Fairfax, Virginia Juvenile Detention Center, by Kevin Bliss
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