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in the past. In March, we sent letters to prisoners

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six weeks, two cases, and one death.

This is a story of those six weeks told by the man who

lived it from inside parchment prison.

This is In the Dark, coronavirus in the Delta.

I'm Madeline Barron.

I've spent the past two months along with the rest of the

In the Dark team reporting on coronavirus in the Mississippi

Delta, the poorest part of Mississippi, one of the poorest

places in the entire country.

In this series, we're bringing you stories of people trying

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