COVID-19: Jailed & Jailer, Unlikely Allies
On Saturday March 28, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported the first known death of an incarcerated person from COVID-19. Mr. Patrick Jones,
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Prison Depopulation Crucial Corona Virus Pandemic
JUSTICE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP
You Sure Don’t Need Us to tell you that COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact on the entire world. Like so many businesses
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RELEASE PEOPLE AT RISK
Civil Rights Groups are suing the state of Illinois in an attempt to force the immediate release of vulnerable prisoners as COVID-19 spreads
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COVID-19: The Case For Criminal Justice Reform
THE RAPID SPREAD of the novel coronavirus in the United States is expediting criminal justice reforms that advocates have pushed for decades. At
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COVID-19: Public Health Disaster
The top doctor at Rikers Island said the coronavirus-hit New York jail is a “public health disaster unfolding before our eyes” as he
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COVID-19: Seen From The Inside
As a person living inside a New York State prison, I lived through the last major health crisis, the AIDS epidemic. There are
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COVID-19 ALERT: HOME RELEASE, NOW PLEASE
California is planning to release as many as 3,500 inmates from its state prisons in an effort to reduce crowding amid an outbreak
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