Coronavirus inside prisons doesn't just affect inmates. It affects communities of color. “We can expect even more racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths if we allow the virus to spread freely throughout jails,” an ACLU study says.
“I don’t want my mom to not get out because of something she can't control -- this virus,” West said, adding that she is feeling slightly better now that she’s been able to speak to her mother."She's feeling good -- and not coughing."
Bass and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., have written to Attorney General William Barr twice asking for information regarding the Bureau of Prisons' handling of the coronavirus in prisons and among people held in custody. Among Bass' other efforts is a bill she co-sponsored that asks for the release of juveniles in federal facilities.
In New York City, some 1,259 corrections employees have contracted the virus and six have died, along with five other jail employees and two correctional health workers, according to a New York Times article May 20. A majority of the officers in New York City are black and Hispanic. African Americans and other people of color are also at a higher risk for contracting the virus and dying from COVID-19.
While Barr has called for the release or home confinement of federal prisoners vulnerable to the novel coronavirus, many federal facilities have not yet complied.Scott Roberts, the senior director of Criminal Justice Campaigns at Color of Change.
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