Collected Item: “He was supposed to be in prison less than a year. Instead, he died after catching the coronavirus.”
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He was supposed to be in prison less than a year. Instead, he died after catching the coronavirus.
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article
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A former Texas teacher was sentenced to a few months in prison to go through a rehab program after committing repeat DWIs. While incarcerated he contracted Covid and died. Texas has the highest mortality rate in its prisons, higher than even the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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incarceration, defacto death sentence, prison, Texas, mortality rate, death
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https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/07/texas-prison-coronavirus-deaths/
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Jolie McCullough
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2020-07-04