Prisons – Page 10 – People's World

Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic

May 12, 2020 By Robin McDowell And Margie Mason

As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.

Immigrant detainee hunger strikes spread amid COVID-19 danger

April 23, 2020 By John Bachtell

Despite mounting pressure in the prisons and from courts and public protests, ICE has mostly sat on its hands.

Black youth stage Emancipation Day protest for D.C. inmates amid COVID-19 crisis

April 20, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Emancipation Day protests have a new meaning in the age of COVID-19.

Coronavirus threatens to spread ‘like wildfire’ through U.S. prisons

April 10, 2020 By John Bachtell

Rights advocates say that unless the prison population is drastically reduced the contagion will get out to the general public.

California, facing COVID-19, moves to release “low-risk” inmates

April 7, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

Efforts are intensifying to secure the release of inmates nearing the end of their sentences, serving terms for nonviolent offenses, or at high risk for the virus because of age and/or health status.