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Bill Cosby Extends Gratitude to Jesse Jackson After Interview Calling For His Release He s 84 and blind. Who s he going to hurt, Jackson said in an exclusive interview with The Philadelphia Tribune.
January 03, 2021 at 7:12 pm
Rev. Jesse Jackson is advocating for the release of defamed TV dad Bill Cosby, in an exclusive interview with The Philadelphia Tribune, the country s oldest, continuously-published Black newspaper.
“He’s 84 and blind. Who’s he going to hurt,” Jackson told The Tribune. “He should be home and free and away from all of those germs.
Latest outbreak in a Pennsylvania prison infected more than a thousand, killing 9
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The COVID-19 outbreak Pa. doesn’t want you to know about | Opinion
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 30, 2020
Families of those incarcerated in Pennsylvania s state prison system say the Corrections Department is keeping them in the dark about their loved ones coronavirus diagnoses and, in some cases, deaths.
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By Patricia Vickers
Every time several days go by and I haven’t heard from my son I feel terrified. I can’t help but think of the horror stories I hear from my friends who also have incarcerated loved ones, which are happening with alarming frequency.
Just the other day I was talking to someone who hadn’t heard from her brother in two weeks. Every time she called the prison they gave her the run-around, telling her to call this person and call that person, or saying, “I can’t give you that information.” After two weeks of calling, she was told her brother had COVID-19 and was at a hospital on a ventilator. She was his only living relative, a
What prisons are like during COVID lockdown: interview with a Pennsylvania incarcerated worker
By Joe Piette posted on December 27, 2020
Philadelphia
Since the start of November 2020, more than 3,000 incarcerated workers and at least 1,200 guards and staff have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC). Since last March, at least 58 people behind DOC bars have died from the pandemic, the majority of those deaths in the last six weeks.
On Dec. 21, Workers World interviewed Bryant Arroyo, imprisoned at State Correctional Institute (SCI) Frackville, on what he’s experiencing during this massive COVID-19 outbreak.
Bryant Arroyo: So what I want to say is that this whole department is really in shambles, from the top down. As you know from our former interview, we had discussed this facility was most likely the last to have any cases of COVID. We didn’t have any for the past seven to eight months. And what people need to understand, ce