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‘Situation is just going to get worse,’ union rep warns as first federal inmate dies of coronavirus NewsColony Ronald Morris, a union president and maintenance supervisor at the Louisiana prison, was at a hospital checking on an ill prisoner when he told NBC News the “situation is just going to get worse and worse as time goes on. The level of anxiety and fear among our staff is increasing daily,” he said. Advocates throughout the country are pushing for early release for low-level offenders and those nearing the end of their prison sentences. Supreme courts in New Jersey, South Carolina, Washington, and Wyoming acted to reduce prison populations with early release earlier this month,  according to The Appeal. Udi Ofer, of the ACLU, told the Appeal, “there’s a tremendous need for state leadership. It would be impossible to go county by county, city by city right now to save us from this overwhelming health crisis. We need leadership from the top, and clear guidance to loc...