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Articles by Laura Cassels

Florida State Prisons Scrub Key COVID Data From Website, Obscuring Magnitude of Inmate Deaths and Infections

by Laura Cassels, Florida Phoenix, January 5, 2021

With nearly 200 inmates killed by COVID-19, Florida’s state prison system is now ranked the deadliest in the nation for coronavirus deaths. But the public might not know there’s a COVID problem behind bars.

Why? The Florida Department of Corrections website doesn’t ...