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content/newsfeed.md

@@ -3,6 +3,21 @@ heading: "What We're Reading "
 intro: News that caught our attention or cited the Texas Justice Initiative from
   across the Lone Star State and beyond.
 news:
+  - date: 2024-04-18
+    title: "Officials Failed to Act when COVID Hit Prisons. A New Study Shows the
+      Deadly Cost. "
+    thumbnail: https://res.cloudinary.com/texas-justice-initiative/image/upload/v1586892377/MarshallProject_lmb4cn.png
+    link: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/04/18/covid-prison-deaths-data
+    description: Reporters from The Marshall Project dig into a new national study
+      showing that at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, people in
+      prisons died at a faster rate than the unincarcerated population. The
+      study relies, in part, on data collected by the Texas Justice Initiative.
+  - date: 2024-04-16
+    title: The Hidden Deaths in American Jails
+    thumbnail: https://res.cloudinary.com/texas-justice-initiative/image/upload/v1646948815/vera_bkyqxf.png
+    link: https://www.vera.org/news/the-hidden-deaths-in-american-jails
+    description: Vera Institute of Justice reports on efforts being made nationally
+      to collect and dig into data on deaths that take place in jails.
   - date: 2024-04-17
     title: "TDCJ adds 'cool beds' to five facilities "
     link: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/ac/index.html