Eleven years after a federal court found that overcrowding in California’s prisons was unconstitutional, conditions have not improved much. Social distancing is impossible. By Yoana Tchoukleva and Louis Scott California’s prisons are overcrowded, unhygienic and inhumane. Public health experts have warned that an outbreak of COVID-19 in any one of them will become “a source of uncontrolledContinueContinue reading “Releasing More People from Prison Will Make All of Us Safer, Not Less So”
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This Week in White Supremacy #120: ‘Trump has effectively abolished asylum thanks to COVID-19’
Bill Ong Hing, Salon: President Trump has taken advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to finally achieve his goal of foreclosing asylum for migrants fleeing violence in Central America and Mexico.” https://bit.ly/2z7URkN THE GOOD NEWS FIRST: Court Orders Every Effort Be Made to Promptly and Safely Release Immigrant Children – National Center for Youth Law https://bit.ly/2XOcmkaSen.ContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #120: ‘Trump has effectively abolished asylum thanks to COVID-19’”
On Tyranny: Defend Institutions
Dear EJS Supporters, Several weeks ago before we were all sheltering in place, EJS received a $5,000 gift from Tom Given, my friend from my days at Northwestern. He once lent me his Pontiac Trans Am to drive with my friend Jim Fiddler AKA Weasel Piss to Wisconsin to go sky diving but that is another storyContinueContinue reading “On Tyranny: Defend Institutions”