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Letter to Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, asking for a statement about what precautions he is taking on coronavirus in prisons

10 March 2020

“I am concerned that prisons are nhygienic sites that could be a centre for spreading the virus into the community. Infectious diseases flourish in conditions of overcrowding, poor ventilation, filth & a population with compromised health. It would take only one prisoner with the virus to infect many hundreds of people.”

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