Covid Behind Bars

7/28/2020

As the U.S. works to contain COVID-19, the disease spreads rapidly through our prisons and jails — places where social distancing is nearly impossible, sanitation resources like hand sanitizer and soap are limited or not allowed, and where bathrooms, laundry, and eating areas are widely shared.

Civil-rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis discusses the life-threatening danger that COVID-19 poses to the millions of people in U.S. prisons and jails, and how his organization, Civil Rights Corps, is responding.

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