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US Could Safely Release Three Out of Four Prisoners
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
13 Apr 2020
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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, executive director of Chicago’s Uptown Peoples Law Center, which has called for letting 13,000 prisoners ride out the epidemic at home. “You could safely release 75 percent” of the two million incarcerated people in the US, said Mills.

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