DeSantis cuts $28 million from disease treatment at Florida prisons as pandemic's toll worsens

The coronavirus is raging inside Florida’s prisons, with about 2,400 inmates and 600 employees testing positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Last week, two prison system contractors became the first people working within one of the state’s 16 prisons to succumb to COVID-19. With the third-highest prison population in the United States, after Texas and California, Florida could be putting its 99,000 prisoners at acute risk of contracting the coronavirus, criminal justice advocates worry.

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