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'I Don't Want To Die In Here': One Woman's Experience With COVID While Incarcerated


I Don’t Want To Die Here : One Woman s Experience With COVID While Incarcerated
South Middlesex Correctional Center in Framingham, Mass., is seen in this March 1, 2021, file photo.
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Then, she got COVID-19.
“It’s been horrible. It’s been hard mentally on me and the other women in here,” Nevarez said, speaking by phone from South Middlesex Correctional Center (SMCC) in Framingham, Mass., where she had been in pre-release for the last two years. She served seven years before that at Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Framingham.
As has happened since the start of the pandemic in prisons across the country, a COVID-19 outbreak hit SMCC at the end of January. In total, Nevarez and 11 other women at the facility — almost half of the population in the minimum security unit at SMCC — eventually tested positive for the disease. ....

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Little noticed law sets off court fight over state's responsibility to release inmates to reduce COVID risks


Little noticed law sets off court fight over state’s responsibility to release inmates to reduce COVID risks
Lawyers for incarcerated people have begun seeking release of dozens of people
By Andrea Estes Globe Staff,Updated February 9, 2021, 6:02 p.m.
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Language quietly added to the state budget in November has given hope to Massachusetts prison inmates that they will be able to get out early to lessen their risk of getting COVID.
So far, the state Department of Correction has refused early release for any of the 6,500 prisoners to reduce the risk of COVID-19, which has sickened hundreds and killed more than 20 inmates. The only exceptions have been paroles granted to some gravely ill prisoners for conditions unrelated to the pandemic. ....

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