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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWEINSTEIN Positive now. Rikers Island - 42 Staff and Inmates Positive for Covid-19
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42 total staff & inmates on Rikers island are positive. This situation is spiraling
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BREAKING: 21 people incarcerated at Rikers Island have tested positive for #COVID19 as well as a similar number of staff. Population in infectious disease unit has doubled from 28 to 56 in past 4 days. @NYCMayor response is totally insufficient to full blown crisis.
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BREAKING: 21 people incarcerated at Rikers Island have tested positive for #COVID19 as well as a similar number of staff. Population in infectious disease unit has doubled from 28 to 56 in past 4 days. @NYCMayor response is totally insufficient to full blown crisis.
Gonna get real ugly in there. And who knows how bad other prisons are.
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WEINSTEIN Positive now. Rikers Island - 42 Staff and Inmates Positive for Covid-19 (Original Post)
Roland99
Mar 2020
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Rikers Island is in the 14th District. Haven't heard a PEEP about it from their MOC.
George II
Mar 2020
#11
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)1. Is Mr Me Too locked up there
serving his 23 years? Karma Weinstein, karma!
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)2. Yup I'm pretty sure he is ...
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)10. No, he's been transferred to a state prison in Buffalo
Rikers is a jail, not a prison. It holds inmates for trial and those sentenced to less than a year.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)14. He was at Rikers and is now infected....Karma baby, karma!
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)3. What a nightmare.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)4. Prisons and nursing homes.
They will be death traps.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)5. Mental institutions, too
Any place with a captive audience
Volaris
(10,270 posts)6. Like the kiddie kennels on the border...
I want trump in prison.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)12. You are both right.
George II
(67,782 posts)7. Guess which member of Congress represents Rikers Island?
crazylikafox
(2,755 posts)8. Don't know. Who?
George II
(67,782 posts)11. Rikers Island is in the 14th District. Haven't heard a PEEP about it from their MOC.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)9. Serrano?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)13. UPDATE - Harvey Weinstein is positive