The pandemic in the New York jail | Opinion

On March 14, the first case of COVID-19 in a jail in New York. The prison system in this city consists of eight prisons; six are on Rikers Island in Queens, and another two are in the Bronx and Manhattan neighborhoods. When the pandemic hit, there were approximately 5,000 inmates, a number that, thanks to the reforms implemented, has dropped by half from the nearly 10,000 inmates in 2016. New York’s prison system continues to be one of the largest in the country, along with those of the …

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