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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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Apr 08, 2020
Latest from Jack Norton
The prison pictured is one of over 109 prisons run by the exas Department of Criminal Justice across the state, many of them built during a period of great expansion in the 1990s and laid out on rural farmland.
Op-Ed
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
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