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Inspector says lax prison enforcement increased virus risk

by Don Thompson
| October 27, 2020 12:03 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prison officials did a poor job requiring inmates and staff to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and even “perplexingly loosened” their policy just as cases were spiking, the state's inspector general said Monday.

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