'The only way to prevent catastrophic loss of life inside and outside the prison system is to significantly reduce the prison population,' writes Joshua Connor, a primary care provider for incarcerated patients in California. (via latimesopinion)
I am a primary care physician at a prison in Northern California that houses more than 2,000 people, many of them medically high-risk. Before the pandemic, I spent my days seeing patients for regular check-ups, urgent care, and treating chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and liver disease.
Last week, the California Senate Public Safety Committee held a hearing on the outbreaks in California state prisons. During the hearing, Dr. David Sears, an expert in prison health at UC San Francisco who was brought in to San Quentin to give recommendations during the current outbreak,Advertisement
Gov. Newsom and other state leaders have the opportunity to make history during this unprecedented time. This country has been trying simultaneously to control a deadly pandemic and to dismantle systems that perpetuate structural racism — which, of course, has resulted in Black and brown people suffering disproportionately from this disease.
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