For those who don't know, Michigan is vaccinating people in prison over 65 currently, about 4k have been vaccinated.
But according to the CDC, everyone in prison is at high-risk and should be prioritized
People in prison cannot self-isolate, cannot socially distance, and cannot look over their own health care needs....here is a very strong article making the moral and substantive case for vaccinations in New York
Look back, I said - since the beginning - people should steer far clear of the Lincoln Project, that it was a grift and that it would most likely be used to elect moderate GOP in the future
Now, I did not predict this awfulness.....but, I knew they were not actually allies
But a lot of people got mad at me for saying they weren't actually allies.
There were two recent protests by incarcerated people that we should be paying attention to
1. The people at St Louis City Justice Center protesting COVID protocols
2. The Moose Lake Hunger Strike around the "forever punishment" of Civil Commitment reason.com/2021/02/10/civ…
In case you are less familiar with the second, these are people who served their sentence and are being held - in many cases forever, beyond their actual sentence based on questionable scientific claims of dangerousness
Yes, I get that folks in this situation are unpopular.....
But, we are holding people for DECADES who already served their sentences based on the legal fiction that it is treatment and not punishment
Think about the implications of the government having this power
Folks, when people who are incarcerated organize and demonstrate, it is almost always because conditions are so bad they have been left with no other option
I am not sure why the press always demonizes them, read history, most so-called "riots" are for legitimate greivances
Also, some timetake a gander at how impossible it is to get a court to recognize a cruel and unusual punishment case sometime....it is pretty much impossible.
Also, prisons are black boxes....a lot of bad things happen in the dark w/o accountability
If you haven't read, for instance, "Blood in the Water" by @hthompsn, you probably should...especially if your natural inclination was to assume it was unwarranted