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Prisons were some of the hardest hit places during the pandemic. What are the next steps forward?

By Elizabeth Thompson It’s easy to ignore prisons and jails if you’re on the outside. Inside and outside seem like different worlds, but they aren’t. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on North Carolina’s prison system demonstrated the interconnectedness of the inside and outside communities as the number of cases behind the barbed wire ballooned through 2020 […]