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So, the Attorney General’s office just submitted its motion opposing our federal lawsuit’s request for emergency action. This is a preview of what they’ll likely argue in court on Friday.

In that brief, the State of Connecticut argues that a mortality rate of "just" 1% means that no one in prison faces a "substantial risk" of death. There are no throwaway people. The State shouldn’t be willing to sacrifice 1% of any of us.

Even with incomplete testing in the DOC, the third biggest cluster of infections *in Connecticut* is at Osborn Correctional (the biggest, Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, was just ordered by a judge to safely release people).