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Massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.
Title (Dublin Core)
Massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.
Description (Dublin Core)
While the headline on this article seems extremely alarming it is less so after reading the article but still concerning. This prison offers a sexual predator rehab program and explains why only sex offenders are being housed here. Except that there were still a small number of prisoners that were serving time for other offenses and these people were transferred to other facilities. At this point 80% of the prison inmates have tested positive for Covid-19. While small numbers of inmates have been released early from prison to aid in slowing the spread of covid within the correctional facilities no one from this prison has been released early because sex offenders are specifically exempt from the option for early release due to the public safety risk they pose.
Date (Dublin Core)
June 27, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Jeff Proctor
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)
New Mexico In Depth
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Neighborhoods
English
News coverage
English
Crime
English
Government State
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
transfer
jail
incarceration
sex offender
public safety
#lockedupwithcovid
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/30/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/17/2020
07/19/2020
08/02/2022
10/08/2024
This item was submitted on June 30, 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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