Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. Mary Altaffer/AP Back in early April as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged New York, John J. Lennon was sure he would contract the coronavirus. As a prisoner at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., social distancing was impossible, he says. Making calls on prison […]
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Gregory Marcinski is 43 and incarcerated at a federal prison in Otisville, New York. He has never met or touched his partner Eva, who lives nearly 4,000 miles away in Bavaria, Germany. But when Eva opens his letters and fingers the stationery she knows he’s held, too, the sensation feels “a bit like holding hands.” Marcinski has been in prison for almost 20 years, serving two […]
As Attorney General, Kamala Harris claims that she helped push for taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries for California inmates. In 2015, Harris defended the California corrections department in a case regarding gender reassignment surgeries for inmates as ‘necessary’. The outcome of the case allowed for convicted murderer Shiloh Quine to receive gender reassignment surgery. Harris stated, “I worked behind the scenes to not only make sure that […]
As COVID-19 Stalks Florida’s Inmates, So Does Another Plague By Shirso Dasgupta and Samantha J. Gross, McClatchy DC. July 21, 2020 As COVID-19 Stalks Florida’s Inmates, So Does Another Plague2020-07-212020-07-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/sweat.jpg200px200px Above photo: At Tomoka Correctional Institution (pictured) near Daytona and other facilities, inmate would seek work outside the compound to escape from the brutal heat. The coronavirus has limited those opportunities. ‘Sleeping in a ball of sweat.’ […]
San Quentin Inmates On Hunger Strike By Dominique Mosbergen, HuffPost. July 5, 2020 San Quentin Inmates On Hunger Strike2020-07-052020-07-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/quentin-inmate.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fro NBC. Amid Alarming COVID-19 Surge. More than 1,100 coronavirus cases and one death have been reported at the California prison. Infected inmates said they’re protesting inhumane conditions. Several men incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison who have tested positive for COVID-19 have gone on a […]
French prison residents and law enforcement agents have been exposed to COVID-19 from the outset of the pandemic due to irresponsible actions of the French authorities, argue trade unionists Samuel Gauthier and Noam Anouar. On 9 June 2020, Chief Prosecutor of Paris Remy Heitz launched an investigation into the French state’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, considering possible charges including involuntary homicide, endangering life and failure […]
US Attorney General William Barr US Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for four federal death-row inmates convicted of murdering children. In two of the cases, the inmates raped the children they murdered. In July of 2019, AG Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to revise the Federal Execution Protocol to provide for the use of […]
Baton Rouge Inmates Sue For Release Due To COVID-19, Potential ‘Death Sentence’ Lea Skene, The Advocate. May 28, 2020 Baton Rouge Inmates Sue For Release Due To COVID-19, Potential ‘Death Sentence’2020-05-282020-05-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/inside-a-louisian-state-penitentiary-from-pinterest-e1590688770232.jpg200px200px Above photo: Inside a Louisiana State Penitentiary from Pinterest. A group of inmates in Baton Rouge’s jail filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday seeking their release to home confinement because the coronavirus is spreading through the lockup. Clifton […]
Inmates in the Los Angeles County prison system are deliberately trying to contract the coronavirus so that they will be released, according to Sheriff Alex Villanueva. During a press conference on Monday, Sheriff Villanueva said that some inmates believed that if more inmates caught the virus, it would force the county to begin releasing more inmates. “There was some mistaken belief among the inmate population that […]