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Prisoners Keep Dying of COVID While ‘Compassionate Releases’ Stall in Court

03.18.21

By Keegan Hamilton, Samir Ferdowsi, and Rob Arthur
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North Carolina Claims Prisoners Who Died of COVID Didn’t Die of COVID

02.09.21

By Hannah Critchfield and Arabella Saunders
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COVID-19 Devastated Prisons. Now Some Inside Don’t Want the Vaccine.

01.29.21

By Keegan Hamilton
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Federal Prisons Keep Turning Into COVID Nightmares: ‘Everyone Looks Like Death’

11.12.20

By Keegan Hamilton
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A Super-Spreader Jail Keeps Sparking COVID Outbreaks Across the U.S.

10.13.20

By Keegan Hamilton
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‘Man Down!’: Inside the Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak at San Quentin

09.18.20

By Keegan Hamilton
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‘Con Air’ Is Spreading COVID-19 All Over the U.S. Prison System

08.13.20

By Keegan Hamilton and Keri Blakinger
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‘I Begged Them To Let Me Die’: How Federal Prisons Became Coronavirus Death Traps

06.18.20

By Keegan Hamilton and Keri Blakinger
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A Federal Prison Staffer Has Died of COVID-19

06.03.20

By Keegan Hamilton
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Inside the Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak at Oakdale Federal Prison

05.05.20

By Keegan Hamilton
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EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Warned of Coronavirus Danger in Prison Where a Woman Just Died After Giving Birth

04.29.20

By Keegan Hamilton
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Federal Prison Staff Say the Government Is ‘Getting Hustled’ with Bogus Coronavirus Masks

04.21.20

By Keegan Hamilton and Daniel Newhauser

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