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Coronavirus death sentence: Release elderly, nonviolent federal inmates to home confinement

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Published March 26, 2020 3:49pm ET
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Coronavirus death sentence: Release elderly, nonviolent federal inmates to home confinement
About 220,000 men and women are in federal prison, and nearly everyone who enters the prison system eventually gets out. So with the coronavirus crisis, let’s make sure that these inmates get out alive. Coronavirus poses a disproportionate threat to the elderly. Our prisons, as it happens, are full of men and women over 60 […]

About 220,000 men and women are in federal prison, and nearly everyone who enters the prison system eventually gets out.

So with the coronavirus crisis, let’s make sure that these inmates get out alive.

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