{"id":2973,"date":"2020-12-19T06:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/19\/covid-19-spikes-in-prison-will-spread-to-the-larger-community\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T06:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:15:56","slug":"covid-19-spikes-in-prison-will-spread-to-the-larger-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/19\/covid-19-spikes-in-prison-will-spread-to-the-larger-community\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 spikes in prison will spread to the larger community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"EYzz3PvJrw0\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice\u2014whose mission is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the justice system\u2014reports that the rate of COVID cases in federal and state prisons is more than four times the national rate. Eddie Conway talks to Jose Saldana, director of Release Aging People in Prison, about the public health threat, why prisons and jails are hotbeds of contagion, and how punitive measures for infected prisoners are making everything worse.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/19\/covid-19-spikes-in-prison-will-spread-to-the-larger-community\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice\u2014whose mission is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the justice system\u2014reports that the rate of COVID cases in federal\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}