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Experts and advocates are calling on governments to release some inmates in provincial jails and federal prisons as outbreaks of COVID-19 driven by the fast-moving Omicron variant spread through the country’s correctional facilities.Federal and provincial corrections facilities are seeing surges in COVID caseloads. (Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)Experts and advocates are calling on governments to release…

A Black transgender woman is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections, accusing officials of failing to protect her from alleged sexual assaults…