For those in jail, COVID-19 could be death sentence
Legal groups appeal to the SJC to intervene
By 
Josiah Rich and 
Carol Rose
criminal justice
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LEGAL GROUPS, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, have made an urgent plea to the state’s highest court. “There are about 16,500 human beings in our prisons and jails,” they wrote in a court filing. “None of them have been sentenced to death. Yet, without aggressive and immediate intervention, COVID-19 will likely kill(...)