Letter: Decrease prison populations

We all have some idea of what prisons are like: cramped bodies forced into too-small cells and massive bunk rooms filled with hundreds of people stacked two and three high. Overcrowded yards are the only exercise most get.As we collectively learn about COVID-19, we should all be seeing red flags in the prison system. But it is even worse than the obvious overcrowding and inability to socially distance. In prison systems all across the country, there have been reports of even the barest precautio