Terrell Leonard is being held at Allegheny County Jail on a probation violation.
In late January, he learned that one of the correctional officers who worked on his pod, 2D, tested positive for covid-19.
A short time later, he said in a court declaration, pod workers and then inmates on his pod started to experience symptoms as well.
By Feb. 1, Leonard, 28, who has sleep apnea, a deviated septum and allergies, said he developed a fever, sore throat and hot and cold sweats. Within two days, he said he had lost his sense of taste and smell, had body aches and difficulty breathing.
Physical Mail Could Be Eliminated at Federal Prisons
A pilot program initiated under Trump converts mail to electronic scans. Biden hasnât reversed it, and critics call it abusive and harmful to inmates and families.
In his first-week blitz of executive actions, Joe Biden
directed the Justice Department to not renew federal contracts with the private prison industry. â[W]e must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal Governmentâs reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities,â the order stated.
But the profit motive will still exist in the federal prison system, even after private prison operations contracts are exhausted. Food, medicine, telecommunications, banking, and practically every other service for incarcerated people are almost entirely privatized, through a
The appeals court concluded that the district court had erred in dismissing Johnson’s due process claim, reaffirming its earlier holding that “inmates on…
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