Daily Archives: April 1, 2020
A plea to Governor Newsom: Don’t abandon elderly incarcerated people to die from COVID-19
It’s important we avoid using “violent criminal” rhetoric to justify abandoning thousands of elderly people, which endangers us all. And, it is no longer acceptable to put white folks’ fears ahead of the safety of Black and Latinx people.
A plea to Gov. Newsom: Don’t abandon elderly incarcerated people to die from COVID-19
It’s important we avoid using “violent criminal” rhetoric to justify abandoning thousands of elderly people, which endangers us all. It is no longer acceptable to put white folks’ fears ahead of the safety of Black and Latinx people.
In other cities, hundreds of unhoused people are in hotel rooms – why not...
San Francisco – In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, San Francisco Mayor London Breed has refused to use executive powers to house San Francisco’s 9,000 homeless residents living in the City’s streets and shelters.
Prisoners call for testing as COVID-19 spreads through Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Louisiana facilities
As this story is posted, another death of a prisoner is reported at Oakdale. Officials of the guards' union there describe the prison as "ground zero" for the coronavirus outbreak in the federal prison system.
Gov. Newsom releases 26 prisoners, but must release more
“We celebrate each commutation that Gov. Newsom granted to people who face danger from COVID-19. However, many people applied for commutations before our current health crisis and are still waiting for an answer,” says Amber-Rose Howard, executive director of CURB. “If our governor is listening to the public – whose voices have been loud on this – and to public health professionals, he has to immediately accelerate the pace and increase the number of people freed, especially older people who are in the most danger, through commutations, medical release and any other tool of freedom his vast authority grants him.”