COVID-19 in crowded Mississippi prisons ‘a disaster waiting to happen’

Mississippi corrections officials are putting the lives of approximately 6,000 inmates housed at the state’s two largest prisons at risk by failing to implement adequate safety precautions to protect them from the deadly COVID-19 virus, a federal lawsuit alleges.

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