New Jersey’s COVID-19 Prison Death Rate Is Worst In U.S. Now Some Inmates Might Get Out.

At least 78,526 people in prison have tested positive for COVID-19, and at least 766 have died. The coronavirus’s rapid spread through crowded detention facilities across the U.S. was predictable, but state and federal officials have been slow to depopulate prisons and jails — a move that would create more space for social distancing and reduce the number of people forced to live in a high-risk environment. On Thursday, New Jersey’s Legislature…