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FILE - In this July 9, 2020, file photo, a correctional officer closes the main gate at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. Hundreds of California prison inmates at the highest risk from the coronavirus have refused to be moved to safer cells, confounding officials who want to transfer thousands to locations where they are less vulnerable to airborne virus transmission. The unexpected development leaves corrections officials in a quandary as they consider how to avoid a repeat of deadly outbreaks like those at San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco, where 75% of inmates were sickened and 28 died this summer. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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