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On the recordMarch 10, 2020
certainly, prisons can be incubators for infectious disease and that puts those in prison at risk as well as those who are employed there.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley emphasizes the risk of infectious diseases in prisons.

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