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December 11, 2020: Like a Horror Movie- COVID’s Spread in the Prisons

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 34.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we hear from two people who explain the rapidly deteriorating COVID-19 situation in facilities in both Saskatchewan and Indiana. As we reported last week, prisoners at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada organized a hunger strike last week to protest the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 …

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April 10, 2020: Free Them Now- Protests and Planning in the Face of COVID-19

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we continue our coverage of the pandemic’s impact on prisoners across the country.  A COVID-19 uprising broke out in Washington state this week.  On April 8, 100 prisoners refused to comply with orders to disperse a protest, and were attacked by so-called “less lethal weapons” …

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