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States Are Shutting Down Prisons as Guards are Crippled By Covid-19 States and counties are finding it hard to keep jails and prisons open as the virus ravages both prisoners and staff members. But transferring inmates can spur new outbreaks. A major virus outbreak at San Quentin State Prison took hold after a large group of inmates was transferred in from another prison.Credit...Max Whittaker for The New York Times By Brendon Derr, Rebecca Griesbach and Danya Issawi Jan. 1, 2021 Battered by a wave of coronavirus infections and deaths, local jails and state prison systems around the United S...

Sharon Escobar couldn’t recognize her father. His face was so badly decomposed that she and her mother were eventually able to identify him only because of a scar on his leg. Ms. Escobar had paid a funeral home in Brooklyn to tend to the remains of her father, Elisha Magosha, after he died in mid-April from complications of Covid-19. Two weeks later she learned that his body had been disintegrating alongside more than a dozen others inside two U-Haul trucks parked in front of the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home, a small building squeezed between a sex shop and a dollar store.