District Attorney Chesa Boudin announces Community Liaisons program
District Attorney Chesa Boudin announces Community Liaisons program
January 30, 2021
As the Office of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin rolls out their new Community Liaisons program, supporters gather at Mother Brown’s to discuss what it will mean for the Bayview Hunters Point community. Here, Assistant DA Edward Chang, Arieann Harrison of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, Malik Washington, editor of the SF Bay View, Jason Young, the father of our fallen little brother Jace, Stephanie LaCambra of the DA’s Office and Gwendolyn Westbrook, CEO of the United Council of Human Services, sponsor of Mother Brown’s, call for smashing the stereotypes that lead to mass incarceration and revolutionizing the way the “system” is designed. Edward and Stephanie are here to serve our community.
The battle to free San Francisco Bayview Editor Malik Washington
The battle to free San Francisco Bayview Editor Malik Washington
January 28, 2021
On June 17, The Intercept published an article titled “GEO Group’s Blundering Response to the Pandemic Helped Spread Coronavirus in Halfway Houses.” Immediately, GEO Group’s share price dropped 7 percent. Bowing to public pressure, Wall Street banks have agreed to stop financing private prisons.
Transcript from Flashpoints Radio Jan. 14
Dennis Bernstein: From Pacific Radio in San Francisco, this is Flashpoints. I’m Dennis Bernstein. Today on the show … the battle to free Malik Washington, the newly minted editor of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper from a GEO Group halfway house infested with COVID-19 while there’s a lawsuit on the way. All this coming up straight ahead on Flashpoints. Stay tuned.
For exposing COVID-19 outbreak, Black newspaper editor faces retaliation
By Judy Greenspan posted on January 19, 2021
What happens when a federal prisoner who has just become the Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper is paroled to a halfway house run by GEO Group? That company is one of the largest managers of lockdown units and ICE detention centers in the U.S.
Malik Washington with his fiancee, and San Francisco Bay View Managing Editor, Nube Brown.
Editor Malik Washington didn’t have to think twice about what to do. He investigated and discovered that GEO’s Taylor Street Center was covering up a COVID outbreak and used his journalism and organizing skills to blow the whistle on the corporation.
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COVID outbreak â and media crackdown â at private halfway house in Tenderloin
January 12, 2021
Every month when a new Bay View newspaper comes out in print, Malik and his staff and volunteers spend a day putting papers in the mail to thousands of subscribers, most of them in prisons around the country. The print edition is also essential in hoods and homeless encampments around the Bay.
Center run by private prison contractor on lockdown, and resident punished for contacting the news media about it.
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Jan. 11, 2021 â A halfway house in the Tenderloin run by a private-prison contractor with a controversial record has been locked down because some residents and staff tested positive for COVID, 48hills has learned.