Ugly COVID headlines and stories not stopping in incarceration nation
It has now been a couple of weeks since I did a round-up of prison-COVID press pieces. Thankfully, the press and commentators keeping reporting and discussing the discouraging tales that keep emerging from our prisons and jails, and here is a round-up of just a few recent headlines and pieces:
From ABC News, “‘Who is going to man the prison if everyone tests positive?’ Corrections officer union warns of dual threat facing federal prisons“
From the Detroit Free Press, “Nearly half the population at Michigan prison tests positive for COVID-19“
From Forbes, “A Look Inside A Federal Prison With Covid-19: FCI Seagoville“
From The Guardian, “‘Severe inhumanity’: California prisons overwhelmed by Covid outbreaks and approaching fires“
From MarketWatch, “U.S. taxpayers already pay a high price to support America’s giant prison population. Now COVID-19 is costing them even more“
From the Miami Herald, “Rubio demands answers from Barr on sexual abuse, COVID response at Florida prison“
From the Phoenix New Times, “‘We Are Not Animals’: Prisoner Slams State Response to COVID-19 Outbreak“
From the Sacramento Bee, “Folsom Prison COVID-19 cases double, now California’s largest active inmate outbreak“
From the Seattle Times, “Virus outbreak at Washington State Penitentiary, and the response, alarm inmates’ friends and family“
From STLtoday.com, “COVID-19 cases in Missouri prison system increase 50% in less than a month“