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COVID-19 Extends Sentences for Some Incarcerated People
A person waves a Black Lives Matter flag across the street from Elmira Correctional Facility in New York, protesting the conditions faced by people incarcerated there during the pandemic. Advocates say states could make better use of systems allowing “good time” credits to reduce prison populations.
Kit MacAvoy
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Editor s Note: This story was updated January 20, 2021 to clarify a quote from New Jersey Assembly member Christopher DePhillips.
Nearly every day, Jan Salvay checks for her nephew’s name on the Nevada Department of Correction’s website: Nicholas, 39, jailed in a credit card forgery case. Then she checks the state’s list of deaths in custody just to make sure his name isn’t there.