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Since the beginning of the pandemic, Iowa with colleagues,

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from the University of Winnipeg in the Canadian civil liberties

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Association of in tracking covid cases among the prisoners

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in prison staff across.

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Canada are the ottawa-carleton.

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Detention Center is currently triple bunking prisoners

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and many of its ranges including on the quarantine range.

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It is a disaster waiting to happen the courts of the police.

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The Providence Social Services need to work together to contain

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covid. Not people, they need to be working on emergency

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diversion measures. Ramping up bail releases working on decarceration

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measures, including, expanding the use of temporary absence.

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Has to try and limit exposure to covid-19.

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At this time in Tulsa limit exposure to segregation,

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like, conditions of confinement that undermined Community

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safety, we have to Remember that when in outbreak happens

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behind bars. It doesn't stay there, you know,

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there's stuff that work there that come in and out of there

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day in and day out and stay go back home to their families,

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to go back to our communities, the risk of,

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of Kobe transmission beyond the walls exist,

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you know, it's a significant factor of covid-19 transmission,

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just like other Congress settings have been and we need to do

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what we can to decrease.

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Those populations decrease exposure to torturous conditions

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of confinement to enhance public health and Community safety.

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We can do this safely and we can do this.

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We can achieve even greater results if we build communities,

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not cages, if we invest in things like emergency housing

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right now.