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arrow Dan Henson / Shutterstock More than 1,000 people incarcerated in New York State’s prison system are fighting active COVID-19 infections, and six have died from the coronavirus so far this month. The outbreaks affect approximately half of the state’s 52 prisons, and the Corrections Department halted visits and implemented a surveillance testing plan for inmates in late December. Since the start of the pandemic 30 incarcerated people and seven Corrections Department workers have died from COVID-19. There is currently no timeline for when incarcerated people will start to get vaccinated. The following is the diary of a man incarcerated at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in the Catskills, where the virus has infected more than 200 people and killed two men over the course of the last three months. ....