"[Governors] face a choice: save lives in prisons now, or hand down potential death sentences with their inaction and watch harm ripple through communities and exacerbate inequities into future generations."
My op-ed with @miriamkrinsky in @theappeal:https://theappeal.org/prisons-are-overwhelmed-with-covid-19-why-arent-governors-doing-more/ …
Paul Retweeted David Menschel
Thank you @chesaboudin for recognizing that these prisoners unable to socially distance pose a existential threat to all of us.
As the epidemiological center of this outbreak, our system of mass incarceration is especially existentially dangerous right nowhttps://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1283956803219251201 …
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David Menschel @davidminpdx
Of the top 20 clusters of COVID-19:
80% are prisons/jails
15% are meatpacking plants
5% are an aircraft carrier
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu … pic.twitter.com/iY73lDpsIB
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