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Prisoners on work release fear bringing in COVID from the outside, then spreading it inside

By Elizabeth Thompson As a COVID-19 outbreak started to spread at New Hanover Correctional Center at the beginning of November, Jada was scared. Her boyfriend is incarcerated at New Hanover Correctional Center, and she requested North Carolina Health News use a pseudonym out of fear of retaliation by the prison system. Jada’s boyfriend had worked […]