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Advocates want COVID-19 health monitor for Louisiana prisons

by Associated Press
| September 3, 2020 12:06 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Advocates for Louisiana prisoners called Wednesday for the state to select an independent health monitor to track the safety of inmates in the coronavirus outbreak, urging Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration to do more furloughs because of the health risks.

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