"[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/ …
Epidemiologically they are, meaning that walls mean nothing to the virus when service workers, and sheriffs come and go regularly from these cesspools into the surrounding communities. Prisons are the epicenters of this crisis and they endanger us all.https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1283956803219251201 …
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Nursing homes are the epicenters. The state bussed covid positive and unknown status prisoners to different facilities, stupidly. Yet, crickets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Many or most of these people confined are pre trial, the vast majority are imprisoned for non-violent drugs crimes. You think those should be punishable by likely impending death? Seems pretty cruel and unusual to me, but them most of our mass incarceration system is.
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