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As COVID-19 cases surge, some incarcerated people remain behind bars after making bail

from The Texas Observer

As COVID-19 cases surge, some incarcerated people remain behind bars after making bail The Texas Observer At night, he prayed. To 35-year-old Ideare Bailey, it seemed like the only thing he could do. He was arrested on a theft charge on April 6, and placed in a Dallas County jail pod with 63 other men. Jail didn’t bother him, but his bunkmate did. Ever since Bailey arrived, the man had been coughing, and on the outside, COVID-19 was all anyone talked about. The virus is particularly dangerous in prisons, and Bailey had heard about a recent outbreak in the Dallas County jail. READ MORE

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