The Times-Picayune: Federal inmate advocates plead for releases in face of 2 deaths at Oakdale prison

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On Tuesday, the Bureau of Prisons announced its latest step to confront the coronavirus threat: a 14-day lockdown in all its facilities.

Prisoner advocates slammed that move as “dangerously weak” in a press release, and called for the immediate release to home confinement of older and high-risk inmates.

“Anything less is unconscionable, will lead to faster spread of this disease, and more deaths in prisons and beyond their walls,” said Inimai Chettiar, legislative and policy director for the Justice Action Network.

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