After a Minor Parole Violation, Gregory Glenn Pleaded For an Alternative to Prison. On Sunday He Died There From COVID-19.
Prisoners at a federal correctional institution.David Zalubowski/AP Photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The US Bureau of Prisons announced this week the death of Gregory Phinton Glenn, making him the 64th person in the federal system to die from the coronavirus and one of a growing number to die…
Biden’s “Breakfast Club” Comment About Black Voters Was Off. So Were These 5 Claims About the Crime Bill.
Joe Biden speaks on “The Breakfast Club” with host Charlamagne tha God.screenshot For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden went viral in a bad way Friday morning, when, at the end of a radio interview with The Breakfast Club, he told host Charlamagne…
New York Prisoners Are Sewing Masks for Hospitals—But Most Don’t Have Their Own
Mother Jones illustration; Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Hunched over a sewing machine at a prison in upstate New York in late April, Jordan Stevens had one wish: He wanted to keep one of the masks. He’d been working seven days a week, earning pennies per…
Want to Know How Fast Coronavirus Can Spread in Prison? Look at Arkansas.
Inmates at the Cummins Unit prison in Arkansas wait to be admitted through a gate in 2009 Danny Johnston/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the weekend, a man incarcerated at Cummins Unit prison, an Arkansas state prison in Grady, tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first…
Chicago’s Jail Is the Biggest Single Site of COVID-19 Infections. A Judge Denied Inmates’ Pleas for Release.
William, a 62-year-old inmate, sits on his bottom bunk and works a word puzzle inside the Cook County Jail’s Division 2 Dorm in 2014. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Outside Chicago’s Cook County Jail on Tuesday, as Andre Patrick protested, he could see men…
Devin Nunes Went on Fox News and Compared Homeless People to “Zombie Apocalypse”
Rep. Devin Nunes on Fox and FriendsScreenshot For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In the latest installment of misinformed, offensive comments from politicians during the pandemic, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) went on Fox and Friends Sunday morning and described his state’s homeless population as a “zombie apocalypse” of…