Jun 17, 2020
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Solitary Confinement, Millions of (Probably) Useless Pills, and Virtual Pets
A roundup of Covid-19 stories we’re reading today
- Cummins Unit, a notorious Arkansas prison, has one of the biggest outbreaks of the coronavirus in the country. A heartbreaking feature in the New Yorker by Rachel Aviv describes a group of isolation cells within the prison known as The Hole, where prisoners who test positive for the coronavirus are sequestered. For many of them, The Hole is a death sentence.
- Asked whether he’d go to President…
