IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK

April 26, 2020

‘Former Gang Members Wanted to Stop Gun Violence in Chicago. Now They’re Fighting the Spread of a Deadly Virus’
MOTHER JONES
In the coming months, outreach workers will be “a lifeline for some of those communities.”

‘Portugal’s answer to the heroin crisis’
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Why Philadelphia is looking to Europe for help with America’s worst big-city drug epidemic.

‘Miami goes seven weeks without a homicide for first time since 1957’
CBS NEWS
Crime rates in cities nationwide have dropped as stay-at-home orders keep people indoors in an effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic. In Miami, Florida, there were no homicides for seven weeks for the first time since 1957, according to the Miami Police Department.

‘Louisiana’s longest-serving incarcerated woman is supposed to be free. Instead, she has Covid-19.’
VOX
Gloria Williams’s approved clemency application has been waiting for the governor’s signature for nine months.

‘Mass incarceration could add 100,000 deaths to US coronavirus toll, study finds’
THE GUARDIAN
Jails could act as incubators for disease to be spread widely both inside and in local communities, ACLU says

‘Virginia Juvenile Correctional Facility Overwhelmed By Coronavirus’
NPR NEWS
Advocates are demanding state officials in Virginia release as many youth as safely possible from a juvenile detention facility after an outbreak of the coronavirus.

‘The 470,000 Potential Voters Most Likely To Be Disenfranchised Next Election’
THE MARSHALL PROJECT
Voting rights for people in jail is becoming another casualty of COVID-19.

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