Because of COVID-19, convictions for nonviolent drug offenses are turning into death sentences. We need to quickly move those who pose no safety risk from our jails and prisons to community supervision. Lives depend on it.https://t.co/RqY4aXv0mw
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) April 29, 2020
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BREAKING: Another person incarcerated on Rikers Island has died of Covid-19.
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 26, 2020
This brings to 4 the number of people who have died of coronavirus, while incarcerated in NYC jails.
The death happened on Wednesday night and the person’s identity has not been released by DOC.
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On April 7, Ohio reported just 14 cases of COVID-19 in its prison system.
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 26, 2020
By April 19, there were 2,400 cases. Six incarcerated people and one guard had died.
More than 3/4 of the 2,500 people incarcerated at Marion County Prison were infected.
MDOC needs to start testing now.
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71% of the prison population – a staggering 1,828 people – at Marion County Correctional Facility in Ohio have tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus.
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 20, 2020
109 correctional staff have also tested positive and one has died. https://t.co/xH9Cn0XOED
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Almost a year ago, Louisiana’s pardon board recommended that Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams, who is 74 and has been in prison almost 50 years, be granted clemency and released from prison. But the governor hasn’t acted.
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 24, 2020
Now she is in hospital with COVID-19https://t.co/H08f5mC6OF
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What’s it like to live & work in the epicenter of one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country? We talked with a dozen people detained or working inside Cook County Jail. They shared stories of terror and confusion, spreading alongside the virus. https://t.co/kH1L7us27g
— Shannon Heffernan (@shannon_h) April 30, 2020
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My first piece for @theappeal! I wrote about how this pandemic is the first time that Cook County Jail inmates’ voices are actually standing a chance to be heard over the whir of Sheriff Tom Dart’s PR machine. https://t.co/NLXoGKPWR0
— Maya Dukmasova (@mdoukmas) April 28, 2020
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Social distancing isn’t enough to prevent massive loss of life from COVID-19.
— ACLU (@ACLU) April 25, 2020
Our model shows that reducing jail populations is critical to saving nearly 100,000 lives — inside of jail AND in surrounding communities. https://t.co/ELV6Nh2FtY
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27 years. 27 years for possessing cocaine in his apartment which happened to be near a junior college. That already outrageous sentence just turned into a death sentence. https://t.co/Y0Y3HKy0T0
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) May 3, 2020
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Top 10 Coronavirus clusters in the US? Prisons, meat packing plants, a Navy battleship. Next 10? Prisons, meat packing plants, nursing homes. Next 10? And the 10 after that? Prisons, meat packing plants and nursing homes…. https://t.co/vdXEqlVymY
— Gina Neff (@ginasue) April 30, 2020
