Editorial: Coronavirus makes jails and prisons potential death traps. That puts us all in danger
Editorial: Coronavirus makes jails and prisons potential death traps. That puts us all in danger
Despite the worldwide
consensus on the best measures people can take to protect themselves from the coronavirus, there are more than 2 million people in the United States who
cannot practice social distancing, are prohibited from using or even possessing hand sanitizer and who cannot wash their hands without permission.
Certainly this is a crisis for the inmate population, and of course it is a crisis for their families, whom they will be rejoining. But it is a crisis as well for the rest of us for two distinct reasons:
First, they are part of our community, and we as a society are responsible for their safety during the period in which we have locked them up with no ability to practice the protective measures that the rest of us do — the distancing, the hand washing.
And second, for those observers who might shrug over the fate of prisoners, it is important to remember that inmates are released every day to rejoin the rest of us..... "
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