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SAN QUENTIN – A 58-year-old man convicted of murder, who also served a life sentence without parole, died Sunday of apparent COVID-19 complications, state prison officials said. In a statement Sunday night, state prison officials said the death row inmate Pedro Arias had been treated in an outside hospital, and …

(Newser) – A California correctional facility currently accounts for almost half of the more than 2,000 prison cases in COVID-19 state, a fact that Governor Gavin Newsom now calls a “deep area of ​​focus and concern.” Quoting data from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, USA Today reports that …