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Lawyers seeking release of nonviolent inmates in Tucson jail

by Associated Press
| March 24, 2020 12:04 AM

PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors and public defenders were working Tuesday to win the release of an unknown number of nonviolent inmates in the county jail in Tucson to guard against the spread of COVID-19, marking another effort to reduce the state’s jail population after 50 inmates were released in northern Arizona.

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