How America’s jails are helping spread covid-19
“AS THE COVID-19 pandemic criss-crossed the globe this spring, public-health officials feared that the world’s prisons would become incubators of the disease. They were not wrong. In America, which locks up more of its citizens than any other country, prisons account for some of the biggest hotspots. By one reckoning, prisoners are five times more likely to contract the disease than the general public, and three times more likely to die from it. The confined nature of America’s prisons has enabled the spread of disease within their walls, and the jail system may have seeded more cases into the wider community.”