Autistic man whose sentence is being questioned tests positive for COVID-19
Matthew Rushin was sentenced to 50 years with 40 suspended after being charged by a magistrate with attempted murder.
Lavern Rushin has worked hard to get her son
Matthew Rushin out of prison. She believes the Virginia Beach City Police Department and City Attorney took advantage of her son, who is autistic, to get a conviction.
A GoFundMe, launched to raise money for legal fees, described the car accident which resulted in Rushin’s prison sentence. The campaign, started by his mother, stated in January 2019, her son drove to a local Panera Bread restaurant, also his place of work, where he mistakenly hit a vehicle.
Cheshire Correctional Institution on Sept. 23, 2020.
The Department of Correction’s routine mass testing of prison staff and inmates has made it logistically difficult to quarantine and transfer people to different facilities, according to a recent report from a monitoring panel.
“The DOC has undertaken a herculean effort to test everyone who resides and works within the facility, far and above that which was expected as part of this agreement and far more than any other state prison system to our knowledge,” the panel wrote in its report about Cheshire Correctional Institution. “The high volume of testing has required frequent movement of people within the facility based on test results, which has been logistically challenging.”
Prisons and jails are COVID-19 super-spreaders
January 1, 2021
A huge outbreak in San Quentin spread to the Bay Area community around it.EXCERPT: The numbers are staggering. We have all heard the term “petri dishes” applied to our prisons, jails and detention centers. Discover the details in this short, concise no frills layout of how Gov. Newsom has abetted the deliberate indifference towards preventable deaths and suffering of our loved ones inside prisons and innocents in the communities where our
by Marc Norton
Inmates in federal prisons, state prisons and local jails should be in the first cohort of people to be offered COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Katie Park, Andrew Demillo and Beth Schwartzapfel, Associated Press and The Marshall Project
Little Rock, Ark. One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times as high as the general population. In some states, more than half of prisoners have been infected, according to data collected by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project.
As the pandemic enters its 10th month and as the first Americans begin to receive a long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine at least 275,000 prisoners have been infected, more than 1,700 have died and the spread of the virus behind bars shows no sign of slowing. New cases in prisons this week reached their highest level since testing began in the spring, far outstripping previous peaks in April and August.