Activists implore prisons to release at-risk inmates to prevent coronavirus deaths kurtisalee reports:
to the U.S. Department of Justice and local leaders, the ACLU has called for the immediate release of inmates whose sentences would be completed within the next two years and who fall within a category deemed as particularly vulnerable: over the age 65 or having an underlying condition. In the letter dated March 18, the American Civil Liberties Union also asked local law enforcement to temporarily stop arresting people for minor offenses and instead issue citations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has implored Americans to wash their hands more often and to keep six feet away from others to help limit the spread of the virus. In prisons, those protocols are sometimes impossible to achieve. Prison employees are getting the supplies, the advocates said, but some guards have reportedly continued to come to work with a fever, and several inmates say some of those incarcerated have shown symptoms of the coronavirus.
“They have little ability to learn about ongoing public health crises,” the letter reads, “or to take necessary preventative measures if they do manage to learn of them.”In Los Angeles, the Sheriff’s Department isclose to the end of their sentences from its jails and cutting down on how many people it books into custody. This week, the county’s jail population dropped by nearly 600.
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