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U.S. Prisons Originally Designed to Prevent Spread of Disease Become Breeding Ground During Pandemic
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2021
by Edward Lyon
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2021, page 54
Filed under:
COVID-19,
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding,
Sanitation.
Location:
United States of America.
by Ed Lyon
In precolonial days, U.S. jails and prisons were nothing like today’s in concept, practical use or design. Lengthy sentences and pretrial detentions for those pending trial were the exception rather than the rule. Back then, they were a place where debtors were confined until they paid what ...
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