New from @NewYorker: For @chesaboudin, San Francisco’s D.A., the fate of incarcerated people during the Covid-19 pandemic is personal. His 75-year-old father is in prison in upstate New York.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/chesa-boudin-on-his-incarcerated-father-and-the-threat-of-the-coronavirus-in-prisons …
He was an unarmed switch car driver and convicted of felony murder, which has been condemned around the world as draconian and inhumane. https://theappeal.org/the-felony-murder-rule-as-a-representation-of-whats-wrong-in-our-criminal-legal-system/ …
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The felony murder rule has been abolished, declared unconstitutional, or never existed in every developed country except the US. Gilbert committed a crime and needed to be held accountable. 75 years in prison isn't accountability, it's cruelty. The world agrees.
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