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'Jails Are Petri Dishes': Inmates Freed as the Virus Spreads Behind ...

Some jails are releasing people to stem outbreaks, but critics say it is not happening quickly enough to save lives and resources.

The Prison as Petri Dish - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

34 of every 100 people locked in prisons have tested positive for COVID, a rate nearly four times that of the general population.

Prisons and jails across the US are turning into 'petri dishes ... - CNN

Across the country, prisons and jails have become hotbeds for coronavirus. Close confinement is likely fueling the spread.

Prisons and Jails are Petri Dishes for Viral Diseases. Inaction Could ...

Prisons and Jails are Petri Dishes for Viral Diseases. Inaction Could Mean a Death Sentence. April ...

Prisons: A Petri Dish for COVID-19: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Prisons: A Petri Dish for COVID-19 ... United States prisons house 25 percent of the world's 10.35 million imprisoned people, and five of the top ...

When Prisons Are 'Petri Dishes,' Inmates Can't Guard Against ...

Many inmates who exhibit COVID-19 symptoms have been left in crowded quarters, according to these complaints. Inmates don't have hand sanitizer and were only ...

'Jails are petri dishes': Inmates are being freed as the coronavirus ...

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Crowded Prisons Are Festering 'Petri Dishes' For Coronavirus ... - NPR

Plainfield Correctional Facility, an Indiana state prison southwest of Indianapolis, listed 89 cases of test-confirmed COVID-19 among inmates and four deaths ...

Activists Fight to Prevent Virus Spread in Prison 'Petri Dishes'

Mills says prisons are veritable petri dishes for COVID-19, given that inmates are typically housed together in a small cell that makes social distancing ...

'Jails Are Petri Dishes' · A Journal of the Plague Year

As the US faced the real threat of the coronavirus it became clear that "jails are petri dishes." Due to overcrowding and the large number ...

"Prisons Are Petri Dishes" - Coronavirus Behind Bars - YouTube

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Prisons are a COVID-19 Petri Dish - CounterPunch.org

... jails are Petri dishes.” Right now this need for emptying jails is most acute at the pandemic's center – New York City. That means Rikers ...

Prison Policy Initiative COVID-19 resources

Public health experts warned that the consequences were dire: prisons and jails would become Petri dishes where, once inside, COVID-19 would spread rapidly ...

Pandemic in the Petri Dish of Prison: A Jewish Call for Justice

Rabbi Rick Jacobs (he/him) is the president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the largest Jewish movement in North America, with almost 850 ...

Barr: Federal Prisons Mustn't Become 'Petri Dishes' For Coronavirus

Barr: Federal Prisons Mustn't Become 'Petri Dishes' For Coronavirus ... The U.S. Bureau of Prisons could begin sending home some of its oldest and ...

Sir John Pringle: Petri Dishes & Prison - CloroxPro

This post features Sir John Pringle whose original ideas laid the foundation for aspects of infection control that we take for granted today.

Prisoners in a Petri Dish - Prison Journalism Project

Prisoners who were already in the punitive-segregation units (for perceived rule violations) didn't even know a epidemic was developing in the ...

Doctor's stark warning on coronavirus, jail and prison

Prisons are petri dishes for contagious respiratory illnesses. We who work inside them will inevitably be exposed, probably repeatedly, and are very likely to ...

Cook County Jail: A “Petri Dish” For Coronavirus - Hale & Monico

The jail has reported 276 confirmed coronavirus cases among the inmates as of April 9th, and approximately 115 staff members have tested positive as well.