'More people are falling sick every day,' attorneys for six inmates claimed in court documents. 'Yet (the government's) efforts to stem the outbreak have been far too little, far too late...'
where the coronavirus has caused the deaths of six prisoners on Monday were seeking an emergency order for the release of hundreds of offenders who may be at risk of contracting the virus.
Somil Trivedi, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU, called the Bureau of Prisons’s actions at the Louisiana facility"dangerous and immoral." Meanwhile, the potential threat to prisoners was at the center of a flurry of recent actions in several states. In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy approved a similar order Friday that would grant home confinement to aged, sick and inmates who are within months of completing their terms.
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