The coronavirus pandemic has hit marginalized communities the hardest, especially for incarcerated people. More than two million people are in prisons in the United States, which has the world's highest incarceration rate. Efren Paredes, Jr. is serving a life sentence for robbery and murder that he was accused of committing when he was 15 years old. Efrén maintains his innocence. In 2012, the US Supreme Court ruled that life without parole sentences for minors are unconstitutional, and Efrén has been awaiting a resentencing since then. Of the 1,400 men incarcerated with him at Michigan's Lakeland Correctional Facility, more than 700 have tested positive for COVID-19, and at least 12 have died
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