It's not in the news as much anymore, but please don't forget that incarcerated people are still contracting and dying from covid at devastating rates. Covid cases in federal and state prisons have been 5.5 times higher—and death rates 3 times higher—than the general population.
As of July 2020 seven of the top ten coronavirus clusters in the United States were in jails and prisons. Not only are people being held in cages in an illegitimate carceral system, but their lives are being threatened by this virus and the insufficient responses to their plight.
Here is an important report the current covid situation in prisons and what can be done to protect people on the inside:

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/dcc-project/wp-content/uploads/sites/789/2020/08/AFSC-CSP-COVID-19-White-Paper.pdf
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