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COVID-19: What Texas Must Do to Save Prisoners’ Lives

Loaded on Feb. 1, 2021 by Edward Lyon published in Prison Legal News February, 2021, page 32
Filed under: COVID-19, Reduction of Prison Population. Location: Texas.

by Ed Lyon

By December 2020, despite calls to release or parole prisoners at risk of COVID-19 — especially the elderly — the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had reduced its prisoner count by only about 20,000, or 15%, since the pandemic began nine months earlier.

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