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Brennan Center for Justice Letter to Governors re: COVID-19 and Governors’ Executive Authority to Release Vulnerable People Who Pose No Risk to Public Safety from Incarceration

April 6, 2020: Lauren Brooke-Eisen, Ames Grawert, and Taryn Merkl, Brennan Center for Justice

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