Female inmates on edge as coronavirus sweeps through US prison

Sandra Shoulders feels like she’s living in a horror movie.Every day, prison staff at FMC Carswell, a federal medical prison in Fort Worth, Texas take about a dozen people out of her unit to test them for Covid-19. Some of them come back; others do not.When a woman tests positive for the virus, her mattress is dragged from the room she shares with three other people and stacked in what used to be the TV room. Every day, the mountain of mattresses grows. Shoulders tries to avoid walking past it…

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