Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated” | Black Agenda Report

Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated”

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

27 Apr 2020

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated”

“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. In a Black Is Back Coalition zoom conference, Attorney Zena Crenshaw-Logal called for the “evacuation” of prisons in the state, which holds the distinction of incarcerating more of its citizens than any place else in the world. The first Louisiana inmate to die from Covid-19 “was a young man who was only in jail for a parole violation,” said Crenshaw-Logal.

Mass Black Incarceration

More Stories

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rubble Kings: How the Violence Stopped and Hip Hop Emerged in the South Bronx
04 Nov 2020
A fact-based, crowd-funded film on urban devastation and gang warfare in the South Bronx packs a bigger political punch than the cult classic, The Warriors.
Alberto Toscano
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism
04 Nov 2020
Comparing Trump to European fascists often ignores the fact that racial slavery created its own unique form of fascism.
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
04 Nov 2020
This week Covid-19, Left solidarity, and the duopoly were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Khosi Xaba’s “Queer Africa”
04 Nov 2020
We are in a time zone wherein the problematic of queerness is being emancipated through story telling.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dean Spade’s “Mutual Aid”
04 Nov 2020
Mutual aid work is part of actually addressing survival needs right now, and getting to the root causes of problems.