When I had this conversation with the @NewYorker a couple days ago, no one in my dad’s prison had tested positive.
Now they have. Time is of the essence.
This pandemic made it clearer than ever that mass incarceration must end. Public health & public safety depend on it.
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
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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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Or the reductive nonsense belief that you could estimate it by taking the number of households and dividing it by 2... chesa didn’t say “half of current households have a member incarcerated” did he? No. He didn’t. Y’all smug pedantic twerps /3
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