NEW YORK (AP) — Coronavirus has become a “get out of jail” card for hundreds of low-level inmates across the country, and even hard-timers are seeking their freedom with the argument that it’s not a matter of if but when the deadly illness sweeps through tightly packed populations behind bars.
I think compassionate release of non-violent offenders could save the taxpayers a lot of money and would be the right thing to do from morally and ethically. Once COVID-19 is lose in a facility there is no way people can socially distance to stop the spread.
What’s it worth to you, Mikey? Got any Trump skeletons you’re still hiding?
Quid-go-free…
How about solitary confinement? Welcome to the world of the lower class.
I don’t disagree.
But I am pretty damn sure that if this happened so, 5 years ago, Michael Cohen would laughing and saying let the bums rot and die in prison.
Its always amazing how these people’s attitudes turn on a dime, once it directly impacts them.
How could this just be dawning on people? I called this out weeks ago and I’m hardly an epidemiology expert. It’s obvious, large groups of people in forcibly confined spaces generally not known for their good hygiene, cleanliness and nutrition, with large numbers of outsiders coming and going daily. What could possibly go wrong? Government’s job isn’t to just make sure the trains run on time and that fires are put out. It’s also to anticipate and be prepared for the inevitable next crisis, and the ones after it.
He could beg forgiveness from the GOP’s Second Coming of God and maybe get a pardon?
Like the ubiquitous “finding Jebus”. All of a sudden.
Chiselin’ Trump will pardon those whose lives he deems worthy of saving.
“A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.” - Bonfire of the Vanities