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And today we wanted to talk about something that doesn't really get as much news coverage

as it needs to be until there's a, you know, if it bleeds, it leads kind of story.

This is, and we touched on this nearly a year ago, the issue of COVID-19 and our prison

and jail system in this country.

Yeah, so we did a fairly long news brief on this topic back in April of 2020,

participating the COVID-19 pandemic would end up killing a lot of people in prisons by

the virtue of what prisons and jails are.

That has since come to bear in many ways and has also now back on the uptick as COVID

spikes throughout the country.

It's spiking quadruply so within the prison system in a lot of states.

And it's recently back in the news incidentally, in addition to activists pushing this topic,

it is like all these things, the only time anyone cares or the media reports on it is when

there's a so-called prison riot or a jail riot, as was the case on February 5th inside

of the St. Louis, the somewhat perversely and ironically named City Justice Center, also

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