
Covid-19 rips through West Virginia women's prison as federal agency takes heat
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Covid-19 is running rampant through the Alderson women's prison in West Virginia, in one of the deadliest outbreaks this year at a federal correctional facility. Bureau of Prisons officials take heat for how the agency has handled the pandemic.
But when he saw her, she was heavily sedated. A ventilator was helping her breathe as she struggled with covid-19. Rebecca "Maria" Adams, 59, died 18 days after Christmas in the same hospital bed.
The pandemic has proved especially deadly behind bars. Inmates are more than twice as likely to die of covid as the general population. And the deaths continue to pile up.
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