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Overcrowded prisons battle COVID-19 with ginger water, handbasins as authorities consider early release plan

To prevent an outbreak of COVID-19, prison authorities have focused on providing handbasins for visitors and feeding inmates ginger water – a popular but discredited remedy – but more radical measures are being considered.

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