caronavirus
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NYC Correctional Facilities Struggle With Crowded Jails, Officials Urge City to Release More Inmates
On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the release of 40 of the city’s inmates who were convicted of minor, nonviolent offenses in order to lessen the burden on NYC prisons and jails affected by the coronavirus outbreak. After the city’s Board of Corrections declared in a letter (pdf) to NYC’s criminal…
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The DOJ Appears to Be Using Coronavirus to Get Around Our Constitutional Right to Due Process (Among Other Things)
As the coronavirus crisis continues to dominate mainstream media and the general public continues to be in frenzy mode, the Department of Justice has quietly asked something of Congress that would lend feelings of vindication to every amateur conspiracy theorist clogging our newsfeeds with their hot-takes on how the government created the virus in order…
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Everyone Is Fine: Trump Says the ‘Caronavirus’ Isn’t as Bad as CDC Reports
Federal health officials—who are officials of public health, which includes scientists and people who went to school for eight plus years and spent all their time tracking diseases and looking at how to control and prevent them from spreading—have noted that Americans need to prepare themselves for a coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. Trump—who inherited…