This March 21, 2020, file photo shows the Maricopa County 4th Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix. In an effort to guard against the risks of COVID-19, Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone has raised the possibility of getting courts to temporarily suspend the sentences of nonviolent misdemeanor inmates who are allowed to leave jail to go to work. Last week, Penzone said he wouldn't prematurely release inmates without court orders. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
March 24, 2020
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Lawyers seeking release of nonviolent inmates in Tucson jail
PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors and public defenders were working Tuesday to win the release of an unknown number of nonviolent inmates in the county jail in Tucson to guard against the spread of COVID-19, marking another effort to reduce the state’s jail population after 50 inmates were released in northern Arizona.