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Apr 30, 2020
Immigration Detention Was a Black Box Before COVID-19. Now, it’s a Death Trap.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, people locked up in immigration detention facilities have feared for their lives. Detainees have raised concerns over their inability to practice social distancing and lack of sanitation materials — even basic soap to clean their hands and cells.
Apr 30, 2020
Immigration Detention Was a Black Box Before COVID-19. Now, it’s a Death Trap.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, people locked up in immigration detention facilities have feared for their lives. Detainees have raised concerns over their inability to practice social distancing and lack of sanitation materials — even basic soap to clean their hands and cells.
Apr 22, 2020
New Model Shows Reducing Jail Population will Lower COVID-19 Death Toll for All of Us
The Trump administration optimistically projects that “substantially under” 100,000 people will die from COVID-19 in the United States. Horrific as that statistic is, a new model suggests it could be a huge underestimate.
Apr 17, 2020
A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform
Marijuana arrests clog the criminal legal system with people who should not be there. This puts even more people in harm’s way as COVID-19 threatens to devastate jails and prisons, where the virus can spread rapidly. Officials must respond by reducing both arrests and the incarcerated population.
Apr 08, 2020
If COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate, Then Why Are Black People Dying at Higher Rates?
COVID-19 is ravaging many parts of the United States, but nowhere more than in Black communities. Early data from the Midwest and the South reveal that Black people are contracting and dying from the virus at far higher rates than whites.
Apr 08, 2020
“They Don’t Care if You Die”: Immigrants in ICE Detention Fear the Spread of COVID-19
Mario Rodas, Sr. first found out there was a deadly virus spreading through the country while he was watching television at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts. In early March, Rodas had been pulled over and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Apr 07, 2020
Police are Enforcing Public Health Orders, but that Doesn’t Make them Public Health Experts
In a desperate effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, state and local officials are following the advice of public health experts to impose severe restrictions on American life, such as social distancing and shelter-at-home orders.
Mar 31, 2020
The Time is Now: Pregnant People Incarcerated in North Carolina Must be Released.
Being pregnant in prison is a humiliating, dehumanizing, and dangerous experience in the best of circumstances. Pregnant incarcerated people have to fear loss of reproductive choices, shackling, and solitary confinement, as well as the inevitable separation from their newborns.
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