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COVID-19 runs unchecked in Pakistan's overcrowded prisons

by Kathy Gannon
| December 13, 2020 11:30 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A human rights report released Monday harshly criticized Pakistan’s response to the coronavirus threat faced by tens of thousands of inmates stuck in overcrowded and often unsanitary prisons.

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