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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 05:23 PM Jun 2020

The Cruelty and Death is the whole point

‘This is mass murder’: COVID-19 deaths in US prisons have risen by 73 percent the past month

After months of warnings that the coronavirus pandemic has turned U.S. detention facilities into “ticking time bombs” and a “nightmare waiting to happen,” the New York Times reported Tuesday that deaths related to Covid-19 in prisons across the country have soared by 73% since mid-May.

“The number of prison inmates known to be infected has doubled during the past month to more than 68,000” while the national daily infection rate “has remained relatively flat,” according to data the Times has collected since the virus reached the U.S. “By now, the five largest known clusters of the virus in the United States are not at nursing homes or meatpacking plants, but inside correction institutions.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/this-is-mass-murder-covid-19-deaths-in-us-prisons-have-risen-by-73-percent-the-past-month/|]

Tell me again how the injustice system disproportionately jails black men, and tell me again how this virus disproportionately effects the black community and then tell me again how we hear nothing from the administration on this. They want them to die. They have no useful purpose in their society. Where have we see this before?



Hitler would be so proud



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