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…
Cuomo’s Push to Send More People to New York Jails Will Likely Worsen the Pandemic
New York Gov. Andrew CuomoMichael Brochstein/Sipa USA/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is gaining admirers around the country because of his daily coronavirus briefings and endearing PowerPoint slides. But when it comes to low-income New Yorkers in the criminal justice system, he…
What It’s Like to Be Freed From Prison After 26 Years—Into a Coronavirus Hotspot
Craig Rixner, moments after he was released from Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.Andrew Hundley For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was originally published by The Marshall Project. Craig Rixner walked out of the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana last Wednesday…
It’s Still Too Painful to Put Clothes On: An ICE Detainee Reports He Was Pepper Sprayed and Sent to Isolation
Detainees leave the cafeteria under the watch of guards in September at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As Lázaro Siberio-Pérez, a Cuban asylum seeker, tells me about being pepper sprayed yesterday…
The “Single Most Important DA Race in the Country” Is Headed to a Runoff
District Attorney Jackie Lacey and former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, at a candidates’ debate in JanuaryDamian Dovarganes/AP In the sweeping progressive movement to elect district attorneys to reform the criminal justice system, there’s perhaps no greater prize than Los Angeles. It’s home to the biggest district attorney’s office in the country by far,…