"[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/ …
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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