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What’s Louisiana's plan for dealing with #COVID19 in prisons & jails?
Wait until people catch it, then send them to one of the world's most notorious prisons — Angola.
Advocates have legitimate fears these will be #deathcamps. https://theintercept.com/2020/04/07/louisiana-coronavirus-prisons/
Wait until people catch it, then send them to one of the world's most notorious prisons — Angola.
Advocates have legitimate fears these will be #deathcamps. https://theintercept.com/2020/04/07/louisiana-coronavirus-prisons/
Specifically, they’ll be sending them to a building DOC is reopening for this purpose. It was shut down less than 2 years ago because of horrendous conditions.
This is where you’ll go if you’re sick.
Are there ventilators there? No. https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_fc7ae64a-716d-5926-8737-b5102b9a24b7.html
This is where you’ll go if you’re sick.
Are there ventilators there? No. https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_fc7ae64a-716d-5926-8737-b5102b9a24b7.html
This includes people in local jails, the majority of whom haven’t been convicted of a crime. If they get COVID, they’ll be *sent to prison.*
Get arrested, too poor to pay bail, then catch COVID in jail bc of it? You will be *sent to prison* as a result. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2017_jail_detail.html
Get arrested, too poor to pay bail, then catch COVID in jail bc of it? You will be *sent to prison* as a result. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2017_jail_detail.html
No one should be fighting a deadly disease in prison or jail. But with Angola specifically, just over a month ago a judge issued an order saying she was preparing to find medical conditions there unconstitutional.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_d0a3ec6e-58b9-11ea-9a27-e3368efec777.html
And the state's corrections former healthcare director acknowledged healthcare there is *already* a challenge due to the high numbers of people there who are elderly or who have chronic diseases. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_f6309822-17ac-11ea-8750-f7d212aa28f8.html
This is what happens when you view an incarceration as a solution to all problems.
Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S.
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S.
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Instead, the state should be focused on following public health experts’ advice to reduce prison and jail populations in order to #stopthespread.
https://www.scribd.com/document/453999944/Public-Health-Letter-to-Gov-Edwards
