In The Dark

Coronavirus in the Delta, Episode 2: Parchman

In The Dark

Show Notes

How do you self-isolate when your home is a single room that you share with 107 men? That's what inmates at Mississippi's infamous Parchman prison have been wondering for six weeks.

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