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Judge: Prisons must create testing plan for all inmates

by Associated Press
| June 10, 2020 10:27 AM

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state prison inmates are likely facing unlawful “cruel or unusual punishments” in part because correction officials have failed to offer widespread COVID-19 testing within all correctional facilities, a judge said.

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