Mass Incarceration Poses Uniquely American Coronavirus Risk
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/05/06/coronavirus-prison-jail-mass-incarceration
There is a fundamental flaw in the models that Trump administration officials have used to project the curve of the coronavirus outbreak as it rips across the United States. Those models were based on other countries’ experiences with the virus — from China to Italy — and do not account for a uniquely American risk factor : mass incarceration. There are currently 2.3 million people incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons. The U.S. accounts for 4 percent of the world’s population and 21 percent (...)
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