As the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic takes hold of France, and while the nation grapples with adjusting to the officially imposed drastic “lockdown” on movement, there is one largely unseen section of the population that is particularly exposed to the threat of propagation of the virus, and the implications are causing serious concern for them, their families, lawyers and justice officials; they are the more than 70,000 people locked up in French prisons.
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