Kansas Prisons Have Some Of The Highest COVID-19 Infection Rates In The Country
Nomin Ujiyediin / Kansas News Service Originally published on December 21, 2020 8:58 am Leoti Masterson hasn’t seen her son, Jeff, since March. She used to visit him at the Winfield Correctional Facility once a week to play cards, reminisce and pray together, sometimes for hours at a time. But when the pandemic started, Kansas prisons stopped allowing visitors as a coronavirus precaution. Now, Masterson makes do with daily phone calls no longer than 20 minutes. “He’s my closest family member,” Masterson said. “So, yeah, this is hard.” Yet suspending visits hasn’t kept t...
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