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COVID-19 Makes Deciding Who Gets Out of Jail Urgent
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Sep 14, 2020
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Podcast episode
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James Howard III was arrested this spring and sent to Chicago’s Cook County Jail a few weeks into the state's coronavirus lockdown. Crowded, unsanitary, and with little means of social distancing, the single-site jail experienced a rapid outbreak of COVID-19. Mark Betancourt reports on the unprecedented steps officials took to control the outbreak, and the urgent attempts of families to keep their loved ones safe. Sign up for our newsletter today.
Released:
Sep 14, 2020
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Podcast episode
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One State Is Disrupting the Pipeline from Foster Care to Jail: By age 17, over half of young people in foster care have already been convicted of a crime or spent a night in jail. After they age out, a quarter will go to jail or get in trouble with the law within the first two years. California is determined to keep foster youth out of jail. Reporter Liza Veale profiles two young people who are making their way out of the system, and talks with policy makers and social service workers trying to redirect the foster-care-to-prison pipeline. by 70 Million