Across the country, prisons and jails have become hotbeds for the coronavirus. CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent DrSanjayGupta takes us into America's prison system to find out how the people who live and work there are fighting the pandemic.
Anonymous prison inmate: We need help. Help for the overcrowding. Help for sanitary purposes. We need to release some of these people. Dr. Sanjay Gupta: That's a message from a prison inmate in Alabama.Read MoreCNN obtained this video, which was taken inside one of Alabama's state prisons, and it shows just how dangerous and potentially life-threatening conditions are in the facilities.Across the country, prisons and jails have become hotbeds for coronavirus.
Rosner: Unfortunately, I think it's a good analogy. The dynamics in the jail, the number of people that a single person will likely infect, is much higher than in the community.
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