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Jack Norton

Jack Norton is a geographer, and is a researcher at the Center on Sentencing and Corrections at the Vera Institute of Justice.

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Prisons & Policing

Prioritizing Jails Over Hospitals Has Made Rural US More Vulnerable to COVID-19

Decades of investment in prison infrastructure instead of public health has laid the track for the unfolding disaster.

By: Jasmine Heiss &; Jack Norton ,; Truthout

April 12, 2020