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A Familiar Lockdown: Jail Numbers Surge as the Pandemic Eases Up

A recent report from The Marshall Project is showing an uptick in jail sentencing as COVID-19 numbers plummet.

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Donney Rose
Jun 09, 2021
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There were not a lot of societal benefits to this past year of quarantine/social distancing. The coronavirus pandemic brought more than just severe illness and death to millions that came in contact with it, it also heightened mental anguish, created massive job loss, separated friends and families and generally uproo…

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