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During the COVID outbreak, what happens to those\u00a0inside communities that have nowhere to go?<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is absolutely impossible to practice social distancing in prison,\u201d says Laron Rogers to\u00a0Daniel A. Gross<\/span><\/a>, reporter for The New Yorker. Larry\u00a0is serving twenty-five years to life at Sing Sing,\u00a0a maximum-security prison in New York. \u201cAs you might imagine, we are extremely concerned with the lack of information concerning a contingency plan,\u201d it continues to read.<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cWe all feel like it is only a matter of time before this virus enters and spreads rapidly in here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coronavirus poses a high threat to all, but mostly to elders and infants, though it\u00a0can affect anyone regardless of their race or ethnicity. And as the President has called for Americans to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people\u00a0and to limit discretionary travel, what is there to do in jails and prisons where thousands gather and live on a daily basis?<\/p>\n

Across the world, violent reactions have occurred in federal and state criminal justice\u00a0systems. In Colombia, there was a “massive and criminal escape attempt” in Bogota’s La Modelo prison, where\u00a0at least 23 inmates died and 83 suffered injuries, per CNN<\/a>. In Italy, riots have blasted as officials have taken the decision to restrict and limit family visits. In other cases, inmates have died of drug overdoses after breaking into the prison infirmary during the violent uproars. In reaction to\u00a0containment measures regarding the COVID uncertainty, relatives of inmates have also confronted police in the outsides of the prison, resulting in an even more vicious reactions from inmates, ABC News reports<\/a>. Now, as the pandemic strengthens and threatens to turn big cities like New York into the world’s new epicenter of the disease, US and global authorities see themselves forced to study how other countries are handling or mishandling their prison management situation amid the COVID-19 fears. According to BuzzFeed News,<\/a> the matter is now not just about the novel\u00a0coronavirus contagion\u00a0could present itself and rise among inmates, but also about those who get infected won’t come forward until it’s too late, whether it be for their own health or for the ones surrounding them. “If you think a cruise ship<\/a> is bad, think of a prison,”\u00a0said Kate Chatfield, senior adviser for legislation and policy at the Justice Collaborative toBuzzFeed News.<\/strong> “They’re sitting ducks.” Wired reported March 24th<\/a> that at least 38 people involved in the New York City correctional system have\u00a0tested positive for COVID-19,<\/a>\u00a0including convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, who is currently incarcerated at Wende Correctional Facility in western New York state.<\/p>\n

In response to this rising matter, nine advocacy groups on both sides of the political spectrum, which\u00a0include the American Civil Liberties Union, Justice Action Network and FreedomWorks,\u00a0urged President Trump through a letter to The White House<\/a> to use his clemency power to commute the federal sentences of people eligible for compassionate release and other inmates at high-risk from the virus. According to NPR<\/a>, a bipartisan group of 14 senators, led by Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin and Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley,\u00a0is also calling for similar action<\/a>\u00a0from the administration. But, even though jails across the world have already started\u00a0sending some low-risk inmates home<\/a>, its seems just a\u00a0temporary solution to a problem to what the World Health Organization (WHO) warned will grow far larger, thus calling for even a bigger and long-term change plan for the penitentiary system.\u00a0Jails in Arizona and Minnesota, for instance, Ozy News reports<\/a>, have waived medical co-pays and fees for personal hygiene supplies \u2014 partially meeting a longstanding demand for better, more sanitary conditions in prisons. Elsewhere, such as in Maine and Oklahoma, courts have dropped or suspended warrants for petty offenses<\/a> like unpaid fines or white-collar and property crimes. Experts warn that decisions on the prison administration and inmates release cannot be taken lightly, though.\u00a0\u201cThe challenge for courts now is going to be when you have a pandemic that potentially affects everyone. You can\u2019t open up all the jails like Iran reportedly did,\u201d says Danny Cevallos, legal analyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The dangers of COVID19 are everywhere, but especially with incarcerated groups and other who live inside a small space with other people, thinking immigrants in camps as well, who are regularly large in population, making social distancing impossible, representing, most obviously, that there is a blatant lack of coordination within these system, more specifically when an epidemic bursts. Maybe, Ozy News<\/a> adds, it\u2019s an opportunity for America and the world\u2019s long-beleaguered incarceration system to do some serious soul-searching for the future. Why? Because the danger is imminent. For a few days now, Roberts, an inmate inside a New York prison, has been expecting the start of an outbreak, reporting from The New Yorker reads<\/a>. \u201cI have to believe it\u2019s here. The numbers say it has to be here.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Police officers restrain the family member of an inmate outside the SantAnna prison in Modena, Italy, in one of the country’s quarantine red zones, on March 9, 2020, after new visitation, furlough and parole restrictions were imposed because of the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by: Piero Cruciatti\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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