Car Caravan noise Demos at Jails demand release of prisoners to avoid COVID deaths

Most of the 1,600 prisoners in the jail are awaiting trial and legally presumed innocent, yet facing a death sentence due to the virus.

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from … DC Direct Action News

A Convoy of vehicles is one way to BREAK THE BAN on demonstrations

On the 8th of March, a noisy car caravan took to the streets of DC, demanding that all prisoners in the DC Jail and in Central Cell Block be released immediately so they don’t contract the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus.

This is a life-and-death matter! There are 126 people currently quarantined in the DC Jail after contact with a “staffer” who tested positive for the coronavirus. .

There are now 28 confirmed positive cases in the jail, which could easily detonate into infection of nearly every prisoner if they are not quickly released from close confinement with each other. The DC Jail has been described as a coronavirus death trap given these statistics.

Kamal Dorchy, an inmate at the D.C. Jail, suffers from leukopenia, or a lowered white blood cell count. And…

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