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January 20, 2021

MDOC sanitization efforts making Mississippi prisons among safest for COVID-19

With 343,000 U.S. inmates testing positive for COVID-19 and over 2,100 dying from the virus, Mississippi’s 17,000 prisoners are among the safest from the virus according to comparable figures in other states and those compiled by inmate-advocacy group, the Marshall Project.  Mississippi Department of Corrections has registered 1,383 COVID-positive inmates, which is 32 times less…