| Black Agenda Report

Michelle Chen
Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns
20 May 2020
More than 300,000 people in prisons or jails are under “full or partial lockdown” in response to the pandemic.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Everybody is Getting a Taste of Lockdown
18 May 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, says all of Pennsylania’s incarcerated population has been on 23 hour, 15 minute daily lockdown since the beginning of
Jamiles Lartey
New York Tried to Get Rid of Bail. Then the Backlash Came
13 May 2020
The no-bail movement was on a roll from Vermont and New Jersey to Alaska and Georgia – and then the lock ‘em up mob struck back.
Sarah Lustbader
US Prisons Are Vectors of Disease
06 May 2020
The penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Ex-Felons Are Slow to Vouch for Other Former Offenders
04 May 2020
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Black former offenders “need to see strong evidence" that the formerly incarcerated person has really changed, said Sandra Susan Smith, a Unive
Victoria Law
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People
29 Apr 2020
Although prisons have become hot spots of the pandemic, most of the penal overseers have taken only token measures, if any, to evacuate inmates.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated”
27 Apr 2020
“The coronavirus is a death sentence on Black people,” who make up two-thirds of Louisiana’s prisoners, said Belinda Parker Brown, head of Louisiana United International.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
San Francisco Sends 40 Percent of Jail Inmates Home
13 Apr 2020
Chesa Boudin, the leftish district attorney for San Francisco, claims to have reduced the jail population by nearly 40 percent since the onslaught of the epidemic.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Could Safely Release Three Out of Four Prisoners
13 Apr 2020
Although Illinois has responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by releasing about 500 state prison inmates, “the scope of the releases is way too small and way too slow, said Alan Mills,
Human Outbreak Response
Humanity Not Cages: Demanding a Just and Humane Response to Outbreak
25 Mar 2020
With 2.3 million people in the United States in prison or jail on any given day, an outbreak in these facilities poses a threat to the entire country.