OCTOBER INFORMATION AND RESOURCES SEPTEMBER INFORMATION AND RESOURCES AUGUST INFORMATION AND RESOURCES JULY INFORMATION AND RESOURCES JUNE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES MAY INFORMATION AND RESOURCES APRIL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES MARCH INFORMATION AND RESOURCES FEBRUARY INFORMATION AND RESOURCES Click on the headings below to access links to documents. OCTOBER INFORMATION AND RESOURCES No Data Available Yet SEPTEMBER INFORMATION AND RESOURCES No Data Available Yet AUGUST INFORMATION AND RESOURCES No Data Available Yet JULY INFORMATION AND RESOURCES No Data Available Yet JUNE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES COVID-19 Raises Concerns About DC Inmates in Federal Prison Hot Spots (6/9/20) By Scott MacFarlane, Rick Yarborough & Steve Jones, NBC Washington Coronavirus was Paul Manafort's ticket home. Many other old, ill, nonviolent inmates are still in prison (6/9/20) By Kristine Phillips, USA Today Senator discusses COVID-19 threat at federal prisons (6/9/20) By Jessica Ladd, KFVS12 Senators Grill Feds on Inmate Protections During Pandemic (4/2/20) By Tim Ryan, Courthouse News Service The full 3-hour hearing video is here. MAY INFORMATION AND RESOURCES A Public Defender Fights To Save His Two Incarcerated Brothers From Covid-19 (5/31/20) By Jordan Smith, The Intercept As Coronavirus Spreads In Federal Prisons, Cases In Halfway Houses Are Being Undercounted (5/28/20) By Liliana Segura, The Intercept Bill Barr Promised to Release Prisoners Threatened by Coronavirus -- Even as the Feds Secretly Made It Harder for Them to Get Out (5/26/20) No Photo ID, No Services: Coronavirus Poses Steep Hurdles After Prison (5/26/20) By Christie Thompson For many people leaving prison during the pandemic, closed DMVs mean closed doors. 'Powder keg' at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison with 110 cases of COVID-19 in two weeks (5/26/20) By Matthew Ormseth, LA Times Pregnant inmates languish in US prisons despite promises of release (5/22/20) By Alexandra Villareal, The Guardian In coronavirus crisis, lessons in humanity toward America's incarcerated (5/22/20) By Marc M. Howard, USA Today Maryland to test all detainees, staff at prisons and juvenile facilities for coronavirus (5/20/20) By Pamela Wood and Phillip Jackson, Baltimore Sun A State-by-State Look At Coronavirus in Prisons (5/15/20) By The Marshall Project For Mentally Ill Defendants, Coronavirus Means Few Safe Options (5/15/20) By Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project What Women Dying In Prison From COVID-19 Tell Us About Female Incarceration (5/14/20) By Cary Aspinwall, Keri Blakinger, and Joseph Neff, The Marshall Project Virus Forces Judges Into Life-or-Death Calls on Inmate Releases (5/18/20 By Madison Alder Grassley, Durbin Statement Following Phone Call with Attorney General Regarding Federal Prison System Efforts to Combat COVID-19 (5/6/20) Google Cache of statement as it appeared on 5/7/20 at 4:32:49 GMT. Court: Miami jail can't be forced to give inmates soap, tests during coronavirus outbreak (5/5/20) By David Ovalle, Miami Herald Anthony Swain, et al. v. Daniel, No. 20-11622-C (11th Cir. May 5, 2020) (per curiam) A split 3-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit granted the governments motion to stay pending appeal the preliminary injunction of District Court Judge Kathleen Williams that required the Miami-Dade County Department of Corrections, and its Director Daniel Junior, to employ numerous safety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and imposed various reporting requirements. Judge Charles Wilson dissented. A volunteer army has answered Colorado's need for masks. Denver's jails are one recent beneficiary. (5/4/20) By Kevin Simpson, The Colorado Sun APRIL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES Over 70 percent of tested inmates in federal prisons have COVID-19 (4/29/20) By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press More than 1,500 federal prisoners now have COVID-19 as officials expand testing (4/29/20) By Kristine Phillips, USA Today U.S. Federal Inmate Dies of COVID-19 Weeks After Giving Birth While on a Ventilator (first female federal prisoner dies) (4/28/20) Reuters Federal courts begin to consider guidelines for reopening amid pandemic (4/17/20) By Paul LeBlanc & Arane de Vogue, CNN As Coronavirus Strikes Prisons, Hundreds of Thousands Are Released (4/26/20) By Ernesto Londono, Manuela Andreoni and Leticia Casado, New York Times A New COVID-19 Lawsuit Seeks to Change the Horrifying Conditions in Los Angeles Jails (4/24/20) By Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Coronavirus Provides Way Out for Florida Inmate (4/24/20) (released from FCI Coleman Medium) By Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal Black female inmates and COVID-19: Medically compromised, vulnerable and neglected (4/24/20) By Nick Charles, NBC News No One Deserves to Die of Covid-19 in Jail (4/23/20) The Editorial Board, New York Times Tracking the Spread of Coronavirus in Prisons (4/24/20) By Katie Park, Tom Meagher & Weihua Li, The Marshall Project These Prisons Are Doing Mass Testing For COVID-19--And Finding Mass Infections (4/24/20) By Cary Aspinwall & Joseph Neff, The Marshall Project One Philadelphia prison has yet to report a single case of the coronavirus. But it hasn't tested any inmates. (Federal Detention Center in Center City) (4/22/20) By Jeremy Roebuck, Philadelphia Inquirer Federal prison system expands virus testing to find hidden asymptomatic infections (4/23/20) By Kevin Johnson, USA Today Former Gang Members Wanted to Stop Gun Violence in Chicago. Now They're Fighting the Spread of a Deadly Virus. (4/22/20) By Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones Judge orders transfer or release for some inmates at virus-wracked Ohio federal prison (4/22/20) By Josh Gerstein, Politico Federal appeals court stops earlier order, says Texas doesn't have to give inmates hand sanitizer or face masks for now (4/22/20) By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Federal Judge Orders Release of Elderly and Medically Vulnerable Prisoners at Elkton (4/22/20) By Sam Allard, Cleveland Scene Coronavirus hits Louisiana prisons: Medical director, head warden, first state inmate die (4/20/20) By Lea Skene, The Advocate Prisons Launch "Absurd" Attempt to Detect Coronavirus in Inmate Phone Calls (4/21/20) By Akela Lacy, Alice Speri, Jordan Smith & Sam Biddle, The Intercept 'Something Is Going to Explode': When Coronavirus Strikes a Prison (4/18/20) By Janet Reitman, New York Times Magazine With coronavirus spreading, Maryland Gov. Hogan signs order for expedited release of hundreds of prisoners (4/19/20) By Luke Broadwater, Baltimore Sun When Every Sentence is a Possible Death Sentence: Public Defenders Speak From the Front Lines About COVID-19 (4/17/20) By Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe & Ben Miller, The Justice Collaborative Institute The Judge Will See You On Zoom, But The Public Is Mostly Left Out (4/13/20) By Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project What Happens When More Than 300,000 Prisoners Are Locked Down? (4/15/20) By Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project Private Immigration Prison Takes Away Prisoners' Homemade Face Masks (4/14/20) Courthouse News Service The Bureau of Prisons must do more to flatten the curve (4/13/20) By Representative Fred Keller (R. Pa), The Hill Tips For Prisoner Release Requests During Pandemic (4/12/20) By William Athanas, JD Thomas, and Charles Preuter, Law360 It's Time to Start Releasing Some Prisoners With Violent Records (4/13/20) By JJ. Prescott, Benjamin Pile, and Sonja Starr, Slate Bureau of Prisons coronavirus response under fire: 'Reactive,' not 'proactive,' inmates, staff say: BOP has more COVID-19 cases than three states (4/10/20) By Luke Barr, ABC News Internal Prison Guard Email Contradicts Government's Claims to Judges About Containing Coronavirus at Federal Detention Center (4/10/20) By Nick Pinto, The Intercept The Latest out of Elkton Federal Prison, Where Horrow Show Continues Apace (4/10/20) By Sam Allard, The Cleveland Scene Federal Prison Factories Kept Running as Coronavirus Spread By Cary Aspinwall, Keri Blakinger, Joseph Neff, The Marshall Project Frozen-in-Place Courts Worry Defense Lawyers (4/8/20) By Jordan S. Rubin, Bloomberg Law Family of Cook County Jail detainee who died of COVID-19 sues sheriff, county (federal lawsuit) (4/9/20) By Emmanuel Camarillo, Chicago Sun-Times Ex-Sheriff Baca loses bid to get out of prison during coronavirus pandemic (4/7/20) By Matt Hamilton, LA Times Why I don't feel safe wearing a face mask: I'm a Black man living in this world. I want to stay alive, but I also want to stay alive. (4/5/20) By Aaron Thomas, Boston Globe "They're All Really Afraid": Coronavirus Spreads In Federal Prison (4/7/20) By Ryan Lucas, National Public Radio 1st prison inmate to die of coronavirus wrote heartbreaking letter to judge (4/5/20) By Rich Shapiro, ABC News Judges balk at mass release of California prisoners over virus danger(4/5/20) By Josh Gerstein, Politico With 20 testing positive for coronavirus, Danbury federal prison ordered to release high-risk inmates to home confinement (4/4/20) By Dan Brechlin & Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant Crime rates plummet amid the coronavirus pandemic, but not everyone is safer in their home (4/4/20) By Kenny Jacoby, Mike Stucka & Kristine Phillips, USA Today Barr Expands Early Release of Inmates at Prisons Seeing More Coronavirus Cases (4/3/20) By Katie Benner, New York Times Inside a Federal Prison, Where Inmates Can't Stop Coughing (4/3/20) By Marcia Brown, The American Prospect Federal judge: Coronavirus poses 'grave danger' in jails, prisons; 'swift' government action needed (4/3/20) By Kevin Johnson, USA Today Sex Offender Registry Requirements Leave Some Facing Stark Choices As Coronavirus Risks Grow (4/3/20) By Dawn R. Wolfe, The Daily Appeal In California, Coronavirus Threatens Due Process (4/1/20) By Kyle C. Barry, The Daily Appeal We'll see many more covid-19 deaths in prisons if Barr and Congress don't act now (4/6/20) By Lisa B. Freeland, David Patton, and Jon Sands, The Washington Post Bureau of Prisons Underreporting Covid-19 Outbreaks In Prison (4/1/20) By Walter Pavlo, Forbes 4 Inmates Dead from Coronavirus as Outbreak Spirals at Louisiana Federal Prison (4/2/20) ("The BOP currently reports only 11 confirmed COVID-19 cases among inmates at Oakdale, plus another four cases among prison staff, but VICE News has been told by employees there that the situation is much more grim.") By Keegan Hamilton, Vice News COVID-19 in Prisons, Jails, and Detention Centers (podcast) (4/2/20) Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Coronavirus Restrictions Stoke Tensions in Lock-ups Across U.S. (4/2/20) By Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project Third Inmate Dies from COVID-19 at Louisiana Prison as Entire Federal System Goes on Lockdown (4/1/20) By Keegan Hamilton, Vice The Coronavirus Has Spread to the US Marshals' Detention Empire: Exclusive reporting reveals five people in federal detention have tested positive for COVID-19 (4/1/20) By Seth Freed Wessler, Mother Jones Freed From Prison After 26 Years--Into a Coronavirus Hotspot (4/1/20) By Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project MARCH INFORMATION AND RESOURCES California to release 3,500 inmates early as coronavirus spreads inside prisons (3/31/20) By Paige St. John, L.A. Times Federal Judiciary Authorizes Video/Audio Access During COVID-19 Pandemic (3/31/20) Inmates Are Suing D.C.'s Jail Over Its Coronavirus Response (3/30/20) By Jenny Gathright, WAMU 88.5 'I Feel Trapped': Treating Drug Use in the COVID-19 Pandemic (3/27/20) By Alice Markham-Cantor, The Appeal ACLU Poll Shows Wide-Ranging Support for Releasing Vulnerable People from Jails and Prisons (3/30/20) An Explosion of coronavirus cases cripples a federal prison in Louisiana (3/29/20) By Kimberly Kindy, Washington Post How is the Justice System Responding to the Coronavirus? It depends on Where You Live (3/28/20) By Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project How Bill Barr's COVID-19 Prisoner Release Plan Could Favor White People (3/28/20) By Eli Hager, The Marshall Project As Corona Virus Surges, Crime Declines in Some Cities (3/28/20) By Simone Weichselbaum and Weihua Tu, The Marshall Project A Public Health Doctor and Head of Corrections Agree: We Must Immediately Release People from Jails & Prisons (3/27/20) By Brie Williams & Leann Bertsh, The Appeal Some Supreme Courts Are Helping Shrink Jails to Stop Outbreaks. Others Are Lagging Behind(3/25/20) By Kyle C. Barry, The Appeal Don't let constitutional rights be a victim of this virus(3/22/20) Last week, the Justice Department floated a chilling proposal to Congress: grant federal court chief judges the power to indefinitely detain people without trial during the pandemic. This Chart Shows Why the Prison Population Is So Vulnerable to COVID-19(3/19/20) By Weihua Li & Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project The Meaning of 'Public Safety' in a Time of Coronavirus (3/18/20) By Andrew Cohen, Brennan Center for Justice New coronavirus cases in US jails heighten concerns about an unprepared system(3/18/20) By David Shortell & Kara Scannell, CNN COVID-19 Letter to C.D. Cal. Leadership from Community Organizations(3/18/20) Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (3/17/20) Prison Policy Initiative With masks at the ready, ICE agents make arrests on first day of California coronavirus lockdown (3/18/20) By Brittany Mejia, L.A. Times Visits Halted in Fed Prisons, Immigration Centers Over Virus (3/13/20) By Associated Press, N.Y. Times We Are Not a Hospital: A Prison Braces for the Coronavirus (3/18/2020) By Danielle Ivory FEBRUARY INFORMATION AND RESOURCES We Are Not a Hospital': A Prison Braces for the Coronavirus (2/17/20) By Danielle Ivory, N.Y. Times American Courts' Failure to Respond to the Coronavirus Could Be Catastrophic(2/16/20) By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate An Epicenter of the Pandemic Will Be Jails and Prisons, If Inaction Continues (2/16/20) By Amanda Klonsky, N.Y. Times Letter from Rep. Jerrold Nadler to AG Barr (2/12/20)
