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 …
Published study estimating 45% of Americans have ever had an immediate family member incarcerated. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023119829332# … Another published study estimating 1/2, increasing to 63% if you include extended family. https://everysecond.fwd.us/downloads/EverySecond.fwd.us.pdf …
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The stupidity definitely lies in the 20 things
@EsmeAlaki got wrong, like that the prison population went down after the 80’s (it peaked in the 2000’s), or that the relevant number is 2.5m right now, instead of the 12-14million who cycle through jails and prisons per year /1 -
or the fact that he completely ignored that Chesa included “formerly,” or the failure to realize that people typically have 4-8 “immediate family members,” if you include parents, siblings, spouses, and children’s /2
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