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Some Philly jail locks can be easily disabled, staff warn, as violence continues

Some Philly jail locks can be easily disabled, staff warn, as violence continues Samantha Melamed, The Philadelphia Inquirer On March 12, two prisoners at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center “breached” their cell doors and they and their cellmates all dived into a brawl that resulted in minor injuries, according to an internal report obtained by The Inquirer. Staff pepper-sprayed them and returned them to their cells where one of the men broke out of his cell again, an hour later, to fight a different prisoner. The lock mechanism was one of many concerns cited by staff, prisoners, and advocates at a heated City Council hearing Monday regarding the state of the city jails in the pandemic. They also warned of deteriorating building conditions, inadequate staffing, scant protections against the spread of the coronavirus, and a lack of contact tracing when staff are infected all as the jail population has risen to its highest point since the pand

Philly nonprofit organizes mass bailout of city prisoners

WHYY By The correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY) In the middle of an outbreak of COVID-19 inside city jails, the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund hopes to free nearly 30 incarcerated people on Saturday. The nonprofit has brought home 325 people since the start of the pandemic, but never more than a few at a time. Cara Tratner, an organizer with the bail fund, said conditions on State Road, the site of the city’s jail compound in Northeast Philadelphia, necessitated a mass bailout. “This is the most dire circumstances we’ve seen yet,” said Tratner. As of Friday morning, 197 incarcerated people were actively infected with COVID-19, according to the city. More than 90% of them are classified as asymptomatic.

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