William Cooper: Pandemic is an opportunity to rethink prisons

Gov. Gary Herbert must rapidly release low-level and nonviolent prisoners given an inmate’s COVID-19 infection at Salt Lake County Jail. The coronavirus runs rampant in the close quarters of a prison.Releasing prisoners now, however, won’t just reduce the spread of the virus. It will also (incidentally) reduce the number of inmates who shouldn’t be imprisoned in the first place.The coronavirus has forced us to rethink the basic structure of our society in numerous ways, primari