Letter: Prisons are prone to becoming coronavirus hot spots

With the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in the Utah State Prison, it’s important we continue to push for mass releases of people incarcerated. As the growing number of cases overburden our hospitals and health care facilities, we need to step it up by taking precautionary measures and look out for each other. That has to include people who are locked away from our communities in the prison. After all, prisons and jails throughout the country are shown to be the hot spots of the spread of the