Mendocino Sheriff Talks About the Release of over 17,000 Inmates to Counties Throughout the State Due to COVID
An update from the Mendocino County Sheriff, Matt Kendall, about the State of Caliifornia releasing over 17,000 state prisoners into communities throughout the State due to fears about the spread of COVID-19 in overcrowded facilities.
Kendall also provides an “introduction to his “While You’re Away” program” to those who are worried about crime.
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Has it been 10 years since the feds mandated the state to do something about overcrowding?
Haven’t we been told that sheltering in place/locked down and mask prevent the spread of the virus?
We’ve also been told that crowded indoor venues are the best way to spread covid-19. Ergo, the release of prisoners was hard to avoid.
We also know that the Russian mole, Donald John Trump and the Republican horde bear much resposibility for America’s failure to control the virus, resulting in unnecessary deaths and American humiliation yet again. And again, and again.
You folks satisfied yet? I sure hope so. Hurry, November, hurry.
ahhh…. so its maskspiracy
Lol, fuck this. All i need is one more reason to leave this state.
I hear ya!
why dont they give those inmates masks? i thought those little cloth masks work. or do they need to buy those viral masks that plug up after about 15min from normal breathing
I fail to see how prisoners who are in an isolated building can magically contract a virus from outside. If you have no visitors and new inmates are quarantined for 14 days then how are they suppose to contract it? Seems like it’d be the safest place to be.
They don’t live without contact from guards and other support staff.
Hey Kym, I just herd on the Scanner in Mendo that there is another shooting in Covelo, two victims, requesting air ambulances.
Have a good afternoon
The same way an infectious disease always can spread. A new infectious prisoner arrives in quarantine housing, which are not individual cells, just in time to infect one who is just completing it, moving into the general population before testing reveals it. Then of course there are those videos of prisoners deliberately trying to get infected because they know it means an early release. If the is one thing prisoners have it’s time to learn to game the system. The same system that knows it’s being gamed but finds it “more efficient” to go along with it- if isolation is inhuman and group housing is inhumane, go with the cheaper of the two.
The CO’s were not quarantined and came and left for their shifts per usual. Hence, infections in the prisons.
From the article Kym linked to
“So far 51 inmates have died, and there have been more than 8,400 cases among prisoners.”
That’s a 0.6 percent death rate. But sure . Go ahead and release thousands of prisoners who realize they can do whatever they want and wreak havoc on our communities with no consequences.
As a former Jail Administrator I can safely say that there are more cases of flu and other airborne infections that occur in facilities than COVID-19. Jail nurses are very good at dealing with these issues. Releasing inmates into our communities is very disturbing to say the least.
Inmates may have light charges, however, can cause serious problems for guards while locked up. Releasing inmates will not help and only cause more fear in our communities. Stop allowing politics to consume you! Aren’t our children in danger enough these days with pedophiles running rampant for years!?
so now its all about the children? everything else says they dont care about the children
Who doesn’t care? The prison or the inmates?
your betters (or you in this case) or your officials. who wont let kids play with their friends or do sports or do anything except sit inside? who is taking away the magic of children decorating a kindergarten room?
Let the new revolution war begin soon very soon it’s going to be every man for himself not a dam thing is going to stop it if people can’t see it coming there to blind to see
what about all the tracking cookies that process every word you type?
oh please do share your expert knowledge
NoBody
Just like dope…the guards bring it in.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
And the gun sales keep going up!
Must be cause people are feeling so safe.
Is there anything else Ca. can screw up?
Free the prisoners and lock down the citizens.
Not a word about any of it from Joe Biden.
So far, the highest gun sales per capita are in Wyoming…I don’t think you can blame this particular passion on California (also we’re not even in the top 10).
Absolutely
Why is California keeping so many people locked down in crowded over fire marshall capacity prisons to begin with, this is illegal! Jail the prison warden!
When we are locking up Hundreds of thousands for non violent victimless “posession crimes”. And they burden on the system is taxing everyone, and the prisoners are being crowded into jails and prisons at double capacity, we have to ask ourselves “are the laws and penalties to strict” Do we really need to lock all these people up for nonviolent crimes, there has to be a better way! And people do their time and these local District Attorneys rally up signatures using emotional pleas to give to parole officers to keep people in prison longer than their sentences. Not to mention these prisons and jails like San Quentin were designed in the 1800’s not for rehabilitation, but to torture and punish people. Locking people up indefinitely isn’t working any longer. Time to find a better way!