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Lakshmi Sarah
January 7, 2021
California's Santa Rita jail is in the midst of a second COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began. "We're testing people who come into the jail and then we're testing people two weeks after they've been in the jail," said spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly, noting that employees of the facility are screened on a regular basis, and everyone inside, including those incarcerated, have access to personal protective equipment and hand sanitizer. But Darby Aono, a second-year law student at UC Berkeley, believes much more could be done to improve safety inside the jail. Aono has been tracking COVID-19 cases in the jail since the pandemic began in March and says she's the only one making that data publicly available. "I should not be the one tracking it, Aono said. That's patently absurd, that some random law student is the one keeping track of people's lives — they matter so much more than that."
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