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b"On today's 'Brad Cast':\\xa0 Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has suspended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as the last man standing. While most of America remains under COVID-19 shutdowns, there is an explosion of coronavirus infections and deaths among both prisoners and staff in state and federal prisons and immigration detention centers around the country. While some states have released non-violent offenders to ease over-crowding, millions of prisoners are being held in close confinement, unable to physically distance themselves, without adequate personal protection or sanitation, turning incarceration into a potential death sentence. Former Alabama Governor DON SIEGELMAN (D) sounds the alarm about the spread of coronavirus cases among the incarcerated, focusing on an Oakdale, Louisiana prison that is reporting the highest number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the entire federal prison system. Siegelman details the dangerously crowded conditions under which prisoners and staff are forced to live and work, with no way to protect themselves from the spread of the virus, and calls for non-violent offenders to be released immediately.\\xa0 Siegelman speaks from direct experience \\u2013 in his upcoming book, "Stealing Our Democracy: How the Political Assassination of a Governor Threatens Our Nation," he details his own incarceration at the Oakdale facility, and the story of the trumped-up political prosecution against him during the Bush Administration (including egregious prosecutorial misconduct for a crime that 100 former state attorneys general agree was not a crime before Siegelman was charged with it), and the almost-certainly stolen election on a Diebold voting system that saw results flipped against him in the middle of the night. Siegelman now fights for criminal justice reform, and implores listeners to pressure elected officials to release non-violent offenders to control the spread of coronavirus."