Collected Item: “NYPD Brass: We're Arresting Too Many Prisoners on Early COVID Release”
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NYPD Brass: We're Arresting Too Many Prisoners on Early COVID Release
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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.
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Rikers Island, jail, prison, incarceration, early release, decarceration, New York, NYPD
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https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/released-from-rikers-in-covid-measure-man-arrested-4-times-in-3-months/2460035/
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Melissa Russo
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2020-06-12