Covid pulls US prison population by 8%

RICHMOND: Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation when she heard she’d be going home three weeks early because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

It made her feel bad to leave when she had so few days left at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. She said she wasn’t sick, and there were no cases at the facility. But there were others still inside who could have used the reprieve.