First Prisoner Killed By Coronavirus Was Nonviolent Drug Offender

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By Graham AbbottApr 6, 2020, 1:08 pm263 pts
The first federal prisoner in the U.S. to die from the coronavirus was locked up on nonviolent drug charges, NBC News reports. Patrick Jones, a 49-year-old inmate in a low-security penitentiary in Oakdale, Louisiana, was serving his 13th year of a 27-year prison sentence when he contracted the coronavirus and…

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