This isn't about Harvey Weinstein — it's about our American carceral system and how we, as a society, will manage the rights of incarcerated people during coronavirus
are asking for the compassionate release of non-violent and elderly inmates who are most at risk of contracting the virus."It's like an approaching tsunami. Once it hits, it's too late," James Pingeon, an attorney with Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts,"I get that opening the doors of all the prisons is not realistic, but we should release as many that it's safe to release in order to avoid a situation like the one at Rikers.
In New York, Governor Cuomo has not indicated whether or not he’d be willing to use his broad executive authority to signal to parole boards, district attorneys and judges that hundreds of low-level offenders should have their cases litigated at a less deadly time. But some civil liberties groups,, have urged governors around the U.S. to consider releasing incarcerated persons who are elderly or have preexisting conditions that would make them more susceptible to coronavirus if infected.
As a society on the verge of having to cope with unimaginable losses to human life, we should treat theas a harbinger of things to come, and as an opportunity to speak for those who are essentially voiceless, and are directly in harm’s way. Even while incarcerated, inmates maintain their 8th Amendment right protecting them against cruel and unusual punishment.
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