New COVID Outbreaks Push Inmate Cases Past 50,000 | Talking Points Memo

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The number of prison inmates testing positive for the coronavirus soared well past the 50,000 mark last month, as recent outbreaks threatened to undo control measures put in place earlier in the pandemic.


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I’ve already jail broken my BFFs, thanks to Coverup Barr!

It’s less than 100k…
We are doing a very good job!

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OT: CNN piece. A look back in pictures at the last six month.

If you don’t cry while reading it, you not human.

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Rattles the soul.
sure hope we at least make it to election day so we can begin once again in a different direction.

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Simply shameful. As the article noted, many of these inmates are incarcerated to “fight the war on drugs.” How’s that working out for us all? So sad.

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Let me add this.Another tear jerker.

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Yeah, that was some bad news.

This is the only inmate that should come down with this disease. Fuck him.

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tRump is currently giving a speech using revisionist history while saying he’ll go after “rioters” trying to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson. That’s clearly not an accident speaking of one of the worst President who spent years trying to wipe out Native Americans and their culture, and speaking of this on Native land! Outrageous…(speech written by Stephen Miller no doubt).

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We are approaching northern Italy conditions in Arizona, with now over 90% of ICU capacity in use. This was the very situation lockdown and restrictive measures were designed to guarantee never happened. I fear July and August will be tragic times.

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Even if Arizona puts in more restrictive measures, the kneejerk responses of all the extreme MAGAT’s will keep COVID-19 burning there for a long time. Of course these same types are present in all states, Arizona just seems to have gotten more than the average share.

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I was nearly overwhelmed by a sense of helpless rage this past June but today is Independence Day and I’m giving time and wealth to whomever and wherever opposes the TrumPublican catastrophe.

Sometimes it is good to just be fully and unabashedly against something; very good.