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NC claims fewer prisoners died of COVID than documents show. Why does that matter?

By Hannah Critchfield and Arabella Saunders In the final hours of August 2, Billy Bingham lay alone in his cell, silent except for the sounds of his short, shallow breaths. Thirty-four minutes after midnight, he was dead. Paramedics arrived at the Albemarle Correctional Institute, a state prison in central North Carolina, too late to take […]