20 percent of US prisoners infected with COVID-19: research
Roughly 20 percent of all state and federal prison inmates in the U.S. have or previously contracted COVID-19, an investigation from The Associated Press and the Marshall Project found.
More than 275,000 inmates serving sentences for various offenses across the country have contracted the virus since the beginning of 2020, the investigation found, and more than 17,000 have died as a result of the virus and lack of access to basic medical care.
Federal officials with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill on the investigation's findings. Some recently incarcerated Americans told journalists over the course of the investigation that they witnessed inmates in medical distress in common areas of prison facilities.
One former chief medical officer at Riker's Island in New York also told reporters that he had seen facilities where those with COVID-19 symptoms regularly went without being tested or receiving any medical care.
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