ACLU seeks restraining order against feds to avoid COVID-19 prison outbreak horror.
ABC News chronicles the rising cases of coronavirus across the U.S. and how politicians, celebrities and the public reacted., Louisiana, claims he and his fellow prisoners are being"jammed together like sardines." Another alleges he and other inmates are"coughing all night long" in their bunks, and a third says he wakes up"face-to-face" with two other men incarcerated in a 10-by-15-foot cell.
The ACLU's request for a temporary restraining order, filed on behalf of six inmates with underlying health conditions, claims the BOP has only approved one prisoner for early release and has identified just 50 to 70 as possibly eligible since Attorney General William Barr issued a directive on March 26 to immediately reduce the population at Oakdale in the wake of the pandemic.
The entrance to the Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale, La., is pictured in an undated photo from the Federal Bureau of Prisons website."Given the mounting death toll inside, there is no time to waste," the court papers read. The request for a temporary restraining order comes a week after the ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit against Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal and Oakdale prison Warden Rodney Myers accusing them and Attorney General William Barr of not moving fast enough to save the lives of what it characterizes as vulnerable inmates in what it says may be the worst coronavirus outbreak in the federal penitentiary system.
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