With more than 42,000 inmates, Arizona has the highest incarceration rate in the western United States and the fifth highest in the nation. As cases of #covid19 soar in the nation’s cramped, overcrowded jails, the state is among several facing intense criticism for what civil rights groups, families of prisoners and corrections officers say is a haphazard response.

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