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Arkansas Cummins Prison Becomes Coronavirus Epicenter

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Holly Dickson is legal director and interim executive director at the ACLU of Arkansas in Little Rock.

A significant number of COVID-19 cases in Arkansas have been documented inside Cummins State Prison, south of Pine Bluff. In response, this week a coalition of civil rights groups, including ACLU Arkansas with assistance from prison rights advocacy group decARcerate, filed an emergency complaint on behalf of the prisoners. It states the Arkansas Department of Corrections and the state are taking inadequate measures to prevent disease spread within state correctional facilities.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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