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Coronavirus is rampant behind prison walls

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Bureau of Prisons created a virtual billboard.

It's a webpage with a continuously updating tally of COVID-19 cases among inmates and staff in the nation's prisons. The site couldn't keep up with the data. Officials changed their notification strategy, citing "the rapidly evolving nature of this public health crisis."

Likewise, the nation's jails -- institutions through which tens of thousands of people regularly

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