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Ayanna Pressley: Certainly, prisons can be incubators for infectious disease and that puts those in prison at risk as well as those who…

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

Editor's note · Context

Pressley emphasizes the risk of infectious diseases in prisons.

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