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As COVID-19 infections continue to rise throughout the San Joaquin Valley, they’re also ravaging the Valley’s prisons. That’s why two advocacy groups have planned protests this weekend outside prisons in Kings, Fresno and Kern Counties . At Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, where more than 1,600 incarcerated men have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, nearly 1,200 of those infections have been reported in just the last two weeks . It’s the latest in a scourge of congregate living facilities that has already landed two Kings County institutions, Avenal State Prison and the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison (SATF) in Corcoran, on a list of the largest outbreaks in the country . Eric Palba, an organizer with the advocacy group Oakland Abolition and Solidarity, says this weekend’s protests demand early releases for some inmates and better living conditions for others. “The purpose is to draw attention to the overall gross mishandling and
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