27 Apr 2020

‘We’re sitting ducks waiting to die’ – US prisoner on coronavirus crisis

Washington Correspondent

American prisons have become a hotbed for coronavirus

The US has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world and also incarcerates the most people.

It’s no surprise then, that American prisons have become a hotbed for the virus.

Our Washington Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy has been speaking to inmates in two Ohio state prisons who say conditions are rife for the spread of the disease.