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Arkansas Granny

(32,127 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2020, 06:03 PM Jun 2020

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/punishment-by-pandemic/amp

This article is as much about current prison conditions as it is about COVID19. Some of it is pretty hard reading as it describes some really harrowing stories.

I had no idea that our prison system was this bad.