Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing To Understand COVID in Prisons, Listen to Incarcerated People The media must push back against rosy reports from prison officials and demand to speak directly with the prisoners. By Lacino Hamilton , Truthout April 28, 2020 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Incarceration Is Killing Us Kelly Hayes talks with Alan Mills about COVID-19, prisons and making bold demands. By Kelly Hayes , Truthout April 27, 2020 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Pepper-Sprayed, Otay Mesa Detainees Demand Release as COVID-19 Spreads Inside Activists say hundreds imprisoned in detention centers in California are on hunger strike. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 21, 2020 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People Some officials pledged to reduce incarceration to curb the spread of COVID-19, but are they actually following through? By Victoria Law , Truthout April 18, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Where I’m Incarcerated, People With COVID-19 Are Warehoused in a Gym A private company located hundreds of miles away is making medical decisions for COVID-19 patients in my prison. By Lacino Hamilton , Truthout April 16, 2020 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Louisiana Issued a COVID Memo to Release Prisoners — Then Quickly Rescinded It Louisiana is a COVID-19 epicenter with the U.S.’s highest incarceration rate, but officials won’t release its prisoners. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout April 15, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing HIV Prison Activists Are Leading a Freedom Movement in the Face of COVID-19 People who have long organized against HIV in prisons are demanding the release of incarcerated people amid COVID-19. By Emily Hobson & Laura McTighe , Truthout April 14, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Prioritizing Jails Over Hospitals Has Made Rural US More Vulnerable to COVID-19 Decades of investment in prison infrastructure instead of public health has laid the track for the unfolding disaster. By Jasmine Heiss & Jack Norton , Truthout April 12, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Prison Guards Are Receiving Hand Sanitizer. My Incarcerated Son Is Not. COVID-19 has already killed two people in the prison where my son is held. I am terrified because he has no protection. By Armanda Shackelford , Truthout April 9, 2020 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Prisoners Plea for Release, Protection Amid Skyrocketing Infection Rates In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has yet to grant anyone freedom despite a number of confirmed cases among prisoners. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 6, 2020 Truthout