Posted on 10/20/2020 8:52:11 PM PDT by rey
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) A state appeals court ordered San Quentin State Prison on Tuesday to immediately cut its inmate population by half, which would require transferring or releasing about 1,700 inmates, citing the states inability to manage a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the prison.
The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and San Quentin Prison Acting Warden Ron Broomfield have acted with deliberate indifference and relief is warranted, the court opinion stated.
The ruling stemmed from a case involving 64-year-old Ivan Von Staich, who along with his 65-year-old cellmate, tested positive for the virus in July. Lawyers for Von Staich, who was convicted of murder in Southern California in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, argued he had not had any disciplinary incidents since 1998 and the state parole board was likely to grant him release.
In August, the same appeals court ordered CDCR to justify its refusal to remove inmates with heightened COVID-19 risk factors from the 150-year-old prison.
There have been more than 2,200 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among San Quentin inmates and 28 inmate deaths. In addition, nearly 300 San Quentin staff members have been infected, resulting in one death. Tuesdays court ruling called the outbreak the worst epidemiological disaster in California correctional history.
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Californians getting the government they deserve. I hope all these released prisoners burn the state to the ground.
A deadly COVID outbreak that doesnt make a single inmate dead. I wonder if an Inmate gets shivved and tests positive at his autopsy is it ruled a COVID death?
That is a low death rate for the prisoners, considering that a number of them are probably older and/or very unhealthy.
Amongst the staff members it is nearly zero.
It's actually a "case study" that shows very low death rates in an institutional setting (other than nursing homes).
It is insanity. Everything govt people do is upside down. No common sense.
Roaring is quite an impressive word. How many inmates died? Nobody will say that no inmates died. They would have told us how many inmates died if any inmates had died. They rob rape and murder and having a cough and sniffles is cruel and unusual punishment? Voters better vote!
Death must not be using a quality fertilizer
His lawn looks atrocious
Seriously. Why cant they test the vaccines ?
So if you are already locked down and come in contact with covid you need to be set free. If you are free and come into contact with covid you need to be locked down.
Excuse me? Gd? Heavenly Father, this isnt the world I requested. Please deliver me to the good one and I wont complain.
“Just in time to loot and murder after the election.”
That’s what I was going to say. I assume it’s their actual motive.
Get ‘em to Gitmo then. Hardened criminals can’t be let out to walk the streets. Something worse than Covid might happen to them, and wouldn’t that be a shame?
And those who put them there and testified against them will be hunted and killed. It is time these people stood up and did the same to thier releasers
Let’s hope so. This DA needs to be strung up.
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“resulting in one death”.
So the liberal court wants to put 1700 murderers and violent felons back on the street over one single Covid death. Supposedly. For all we know, he got shanked while he had Covid and it was labelled a “Covid death” while he bled out on the floor of the exercise yard.
I assure you there will be many many more than one murder of innocent people if they let these 1700 scumbags out of prison.
I would be gone already if the Covid shut downs didn’t stop my search for a new city and state to live. Worst timing ever. I can’t wait to get out of this communist hell hole. I’ve been chomping at the bit for 20 years to get out of here. I finally retire and am free to move, and the Covid shut down has made it difficult to go back east to look for a place.
If we are still shut down next spring, I am going to find a place sight unseen, move there, and just take my lumps. Anything in any red or purple state being better than California.
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