Coronavirus in prison, state by state
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From: The Marshall Project <in...@themarshallproject.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 5:46 AM
Subject: Coronavirus in prison, state by state
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Edited by Andrew Cohen |
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From bad to worse in jails and prisons in Illinois and Ohio. Health conditions inside Ohio’s prisons have gotten measurably worse as the coronavirus tightens its grip on prisoners and staff. At least 3,800 prisoners now are infected. “What we are most concerned about is the continued lack of personal protective equipment,” says a corrections officer who works at two medical prisons in the state. Columbus Dispatch Related: Prisoners who have tested positive for COVID-19 inside the Cook County Jail have been shepherded into an isolation unit. There is little social distancing there and when prisoners need medical help they get Tylenol, they say. Chicago Reporter Coronavirus and the Bureau of Prisons. Federal officials in California have cut off access to email and phones for 4,000 prisoners, infuriating their families. The feds say the measure is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus. CBS News Related: An outbreak at two Tennessee prisons, including one run by CoreCivic, pushes state officials to promise to test all prisoners. More than 1,500 have tested positive so far. The Tennessean Corrections officials in New Mexico have figured out that one sure way to keep COVID-19 numbers low in prison is not to test prisoners. New Mexico In Depth More: A federal trial judge in Miami late Thursday ordered ICE officials to release hundreds of immigration detainees held at three facilities in conditions she described as “cruel and unusual punishment.” Miami Herald COVID-19 in prisons and jails. Letters from prisoners in jail in Harris County, Texas, where COVID-19 is rampant, are portraits of desperation, frustration and anger. ProPublica At least three North Carolina prisoners have died of COVID-19. Nearly two-thirds of those housed at Neuse Correctional Institution, almost 500 prisoners, have tested positive for the coronavirus. Charlotte Observer Parole officials in Oregon are considering early release for seven state prisoners they say are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. Another 60 prisoners also are under review for early release. The Oregonian Corrections officials in Louisiana are doing a particularly poor job of reporting COVID-19 cases. The Appeal
The federal judge in South Dakota who sentenced Andrea Circle Bear to prison last year for a drug-related crime says he was “saddened” to learn of her COVID-19-related death this week in Texas, just weeks after she gave birth to a child. Rapid City Journal More: Circle Bear, 30, is remembered as a loving mother who leaves behind six children. Rapid City Journal A Florida man was arrested this week for pulling a gun on a neighbor who had reported him for failing to self-quarantine following a trip to New York. Miami Herald Police in Maricopa County, Arizona, issued a new set of warnings this week after residents began gathering en masse and firing weapons along the Gila River. Arizona Republic Police in Central, Louisiana, say they have been bombarded with calls from supporters of a pastor accused of trying to hit someone with his church bus while violating an order prohibiting mass gatherings. Associated Press Life inside the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio: "Sometimes, I call my mom. I don’t want to worry her too much because she gets to crying." NBC News
Deliberate indifference fueled the pandemic in prison. “This is what happens when a bureaucracy built on punishment is tasked with compassion.” The Washington Post Drug sentences become death sentences in a time of coronavirus. At least 13 of the federal prisoners who have died of COVID-19 were behind bars for drug offenses, only a few of them involved violent crimes. Sentencing Law and Policy In the name of the late William Garrison. The coronavirus is yet another public health reason judges and prosecutors should move more quickly to release more juvenile offenders. The Washington Post One in a thousand cases in a time of pandemic. Waiting to die in, or be released from, Ohio’s Marion Correctional Institution, a prison teeming with the coronavirus. Filter Magazine Pretext in a pandemic. The Trump administation’s latest immigration restrictions, tethered to the coronavirus, are likely legal, an abuse of presidential power and another example of Congress’s abdication of its legislative obligations. Just Security
Video of the Day: Features three corrections officials, in Oregon, Missouri and Texas, describing how they prepared for and are now dealing with the spread of the coronavirus. The Crime Report Volunteers of the Day: U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed to allow the construction of a field hospital along the Texas border to help treat migrants who may have contracted the coronavirus while waiting for their asylum cases to be processed. Texas Observer False Start of the Day: The first jury trial to take place in Ohio since the coronavirus outbreak was delayed this week when the defendant nearly collapsed in the courtroom. Now he and his lawyer are in quarantine. Law.com Quote of the Day: “They’ll need to do their part. They’re grown competent adults,” said a Massachusetts prison official this week when asked about how prisoners are supposed to follow social distancing rules behind bars. Commonwealth Magazine Refuted Conspiracy Theory of the Day: No, Arizona police are not investigating as a murder case the death of the man who ingested chloroquine phosphate to try to prevent coronavirus. NBC News |
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