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NYPD Brass: We're Arresting Too Many Prisoners on Early COVID Release
Title (Dublin Core)
NYPD Brass: We're Arresting Too Many Prisoners on Early COVID Release
Description (Dublin Core)
The architecture, system, and overcrowding in America's prisons make the spread of Covid-19 very quick inside the nations corrections facilities. To help slow the spread of the disease inside these facilities some jurisdictions have released inmates early. Most early release candidates are those that do not present a public safety risk, have served the majority of their sentence, are elderly, or immunocompromised. While some people support this plan others oppose. This article illustrates the concerns of the plans opponents. Of the 2500 people released from Rikers Island, a jail in New York, the NYPD says they have rearrested 250 individuals, for total arrests of 450.
Rikers Island, jail, prison, incarceration, early release, decarceration, New York, NYPD
Date (Dublin Core)
June 12, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Melissa Russo
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
NBC New York
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Social Issues
English
Conflict
English
Crime
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
incarceration
inmate release
decarceration
jail
prison
Rikers Island
New York
NYPD
#lockedupwithcovid
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/27/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/15/2020
08/07/2020
08/02/2022
10/09/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
06/12/2020
This item was submitted on June 27, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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