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Montana halts transfers from two jails with COVID outbreaks

by Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 3:27 PM

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials said Tuesday they have suspended the transfer of state inmates out of two county jails because of COVID-19 outbreaks at the detention centers that combined have infected at least 89 people.

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