Like the majority of Americans, I have an immediate family member locked up behind bars. My dad is in prison & at the age of 75, he is high risk for the virus. If we forget about incarcerated people we’ll lose to the virus and we’ll lose ourselves.https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/chesa-boudin-on-his-incarcerated-father-and-the-threat-of-the-coronavirus-in-prisons …
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Where do you get the idea that the majority of Americans have relatives in prison? I really don't think that's true.
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I'm sure it's a shockingly large amount, but "majority" has to be a typo.
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I think this is the sourcehttps://eji.org/news/half-of-americans-have-family-members-who-have-been-incarcerated/ …
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"A first-of-its-kind study released on Thursday shows that about 113 million American adults have an immediate family member who is formerly or currently incarcerated." Huh. So this does expand the scope to also incl. formerly encarceeared, but its nonetheless staggering.
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And if the us population is around 300M, it's well over 1/3 the US population with an immediate family member affected. Huh. Thanks for this.
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