Coronavirus Could Cause Public Health Catastrophe In Overcrowded Jails Warns Prison Reform Group The Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project has called on public officials to release people in jail who do not pose a public safety risk, such as those housed in pre-trial detention or rehabilitated people. “Existing unsanitary and overcrowded prison and jail conditions will exacerbate the spread of the new coronavirus,” The Sentencing Project senior research analyst Nazgol Ghandnoosh said in a statement to Newsweek. “Elderly incarcerated people often pose little public safety risk but disproportionately suffer from chronic medical conditions and thus are at the highest risk of dying from COVID-19....