I'm seeing an inmate is COVID-19 positive at Riker's...

[EarthFirst]

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Good god!

[dalton99a]

1. Iran released 85,000 prisoners yesterday

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1255385/iran-news-Nazanin-Zaghari-Ratcliffe-prison-latest

[Mike 03]

2. Looks like it. That's really bad. Here's an article

First Rikers Island inmate tests positive for coronavirus
https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/first-rikers-island-inmate-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/

The first Rikers Island inmate tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday — hours after a correction officer at the city jail also confirmed they had the deadly illness.

The second case on the island in 24 hours signaled the possibility of an outbreak at the jail, the head of the corrections officers’ union said.

Elias Husamudeen, the president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, urged the board of corrections to “implement their contingency plans” after the inmate tested positive.

“This crisis will grow worse with each passing day. Give us the help we need now!” he said in a statement.

Husamudeen called for the city to provide new face masks for correction officers that better protect them from the virus than the paper N95 masks.

[jimfields33]

3. I thought they were shutting that shithole Down awhile back.

If one place on earth needs shut down. That’s it.

[underpants]

4. Ugh

I heard Van Jones mentioning this last week. Those places are going to be like incubators or Dutch ovens.

[EarthFirst]

5. Then comes the predictable "fu*k em!" & "let 'em rot!" from the Deplorables...

Sickening.

[dewsgirl]

7. Isn't Manafort in Riker's?

Edit: he was supposed to go and Trump saved him.