News Brief: Widespread Indifference to Covid-19 in Prisons
Added 2020-04-08 15:32:28 +0000 UTCIn this extended News Brief we discuss how the rapid increase of Covid-19 in prisons and jails is being met with indifference by lawmakers and corporate US media.
We are joined by activist Brandi Starr and Worth Rises' Bianca Tylek.
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Guests
Brandi Starr is a prison reform activist from Braidwood, Illinois.
Bianca Tylek is Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises. She was previously a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, co-founded College Pathways at Rikers Island, a preparation program for incarcerated students interested in pursuing higher education, and has been honored as an Equal Justice Works Fellow, among other awards. Follow her @BiancaTylek.
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Resources
Coronavirus Response - Friends and Family Survey
Demand Prison Phone Justice in COVID-19 Relief Efforts
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Show Notes
The CDC must end its silence on the racial impact of covid-19
Spencer Overton | April 7, 2020 | The Washington Post
Prisoners In Illinois Describe Dire Conditions Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg | April 7, 2020 | The Appeal
Ibram X. Kendi | April 6, 2020 | The Atlantic
U.S. government is urged to release race, ethnicity data on covid-19 cases
Vanessa Williams | April 6, 2020 | The Washington Post
Health Justice Strategies To Combat COVID-19: Protecting Vulnerable Communities During A Pandemic
Emily A. Benfer & Lindsay F. Wiley | March 19, 2020 | Health Affairs
In Chicago, 70% of COVID-19 Deaths Are Black
Elliott Ramos & María Inés Zamudio | April 5, 2020 | WBEZ
COVID-19 Is Turning Prisons Into “Kill-Boxes”
James Kilgore | April 5, 2020 | Truthout
Prisons Breed the Coronavirus. We Can Safely Free Thousands of Inmates.
Mara Gay | April 3, 202 | The New York Times
The Pandemic Exposes the Shared Fates Of The Jailed and the Jailer
Cyrus Ahalt | April 3, 2020 | The Appeal
Anne Branigan | April 2, 2020 | The Root
The Racial Time Bomb in the Covid-19 Crisis
Charles M. Blow | April 1, 202 | The New York Times
Prison Telecom Giant Offers Aid to Prisoners—for a Price
Chris May | April 1, 2020 | The American Prospect
Nick Pinto | March 25, 2020 | The Intercept
How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits
Tim Requarth | April 30, 2019 | the Nation
The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players
Bianca Tylek et al. | April 2019 | Worth Rises
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Transcript
For a full transcript of this extended News Brief, go here.
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