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While many people are suffering because of the COVID-19 pandemic, when we look back, the ugliest part of this mess might be how incarcerated people were treated.
Social distancing is impossible in crowded prisons, even under the best faith efforts. And under negligent oversight, jails are readymade coronavirus hotspots, where victims already lack access to sanitation, adequate medical care and communication with the outside world. We've already seen this reality unfold on New York City's Rikers Island, one of the world's largest jails. There are currently 52 cases out of the prison's population of slightly over 5,000. Cleaning materials like masks, hand sanitizer and bleach aren't available to corrections officers or inmates, reportsand no protocol has been established for isolating people with symptoms despite the fact that inmates are forced to sleep and eat mere feet apart.
is thought to have contracted coronavirus on Rikers, before being transferred to a facility near Buffalo, New York.that NYC jails are"the epicenter of the epicenter" of the pandemic. The Department of Corrections has confirmed at least one death.
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