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Virus outbreak in Ohio prisons highlights risk at US lockups

by Associated Press
| April 21, 2020 3:27 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A massive coronavirus outbreak that has sickened nearly 4,000 inmates in Ohio has highlighted the dangers lurking in the nation’s correctional facilities during the pandemic and what system-wide testing reveals about the scope of infections behind prison walls.

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