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Fed lawyer: COVID-19 at federal jail worse than reported

by Associated Press
| June 2, 2020 4:03 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — The true number of COVID-19 infections among inmates at Manhattan’s federal lockup was likely about seven times what the Bureau of Prisons has previously publicly reported, a government lawyer conceded Tuesday.

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