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Covid-19 is showing us what ending mass incarceration could look like. Some judges and prosecutors like what they see. A couple of months ago, the
A lawsuit accuses MDOC and Mississippi’s two largest prisons of “taking inadequate steps to prevent the infection and mitigate an outbreak of COVID-19.”
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves rejecting calls from a bipartisan coalition of criminal-justice reform organizations to reduce the State’s prison population. If he does not, the New York-based FWD.us warned in a late April report, nearly every prisoner in State custody could have the virus by May’s end, and around 200 could die.
“In the Dark” unveiled a new podcast series, “Coronavirus in the Delta,” which follows the myriad ways people living in the Delta are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.
As many as 18,000 Mississippi prisoners could contract COVID-19, and nearly 200 could die unless the governor takes action, a top criminal-justice reform organization claims.
During Francisca Morales Diaz’ last week at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in mid-March, guards told her and the 71 other women in her cell block that they would soon run out of toilet paper and soap, even as the novel coronavirus was spreading across the south. Diaz, a diabetic whose disease makes her especially susceptible to COVID-19, had already spent nearly eight months in ICE custody in the prison.
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