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El Paso Prisoners Paid $2/Hour to Help Move Bodies of COVID-19 Victims

HeadlineNov 16, 2020

In other prison-related news, in El Paso, Texas, prisoners are being paid just $2 an hour to move the bodies of people who have died of COVID-19 to mobile morgues, as the number of cases and deaths has completely overwhelmed local hospitals.

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