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Donte Westmoreland poses for a photo outside a hotel Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in southeast Denver. Westmoreland was recently released from Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas, where he caught the virus while serving time on a marijuana charge. Some 5,000 prisoners have become infected in Kansas prisons, the second-highest COVID-19 rate in the country, second only to South Dakota. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

1 in 5 prisoners in the US has had COVID-19, 1,700 have died

By BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and KATIE PARK of The Marshall Project and ANDREW DEMILLO of The Associated Press - Associated Press