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bar chart comparing share of prison population vs. share of prison COVID-19 tests for five states

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Impact of COVID-19 on State and Federal Prisons, February 2020 populations in Table 1 and test data in Table 5. (Graph: , 2022)

This graph originally appeared in New data confirms that prisons neglected COVID-19 mitigation strategies, putting public health at risk.



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