{"id":1721,"date":"2020-07-24T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T00:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2020-07-24T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T00:10:33","slug":"guess-what-the-covid-releases-are-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Guess What? The COVID Releases Are a Scam."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the headline from the piece<\/a> in today’s WSJ by my friend Sean Kennedy, a Visiting Fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute:\u00a0 You\u2019re More Likely to Catch Covid at Home Than in Jail<\/strong>.\u00a0 The sub-head is:\u00a0 Early release policies have had no effect on transmission behind bars. But they have contributed to a crime wave<\/em>.\u00a0 I thought these two paragraphs were particularly revealing:<\/p>\n

While hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans were on lockdown this spring, progressives were demanding that criminals be allowed to go free. So far, almost 100,000 inmates have been released from prisons and jails around the country\u2014with more to come. It can be no coincidence that crime is on the rise in states where these mass releases took place….<\/p>\n

Some savvy jailbirds saw a golden opportunity to win their freedom. Inmates at North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, Calif., sought release by deliberately infecting themselves with the coronavirus. At least 21 of 50 prisoners who were caught on video drinking hot water from the same cup eventually tested positive for Covid-19. It isn\u2019t clear whether they got their wish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the headline from the piece in today’s WSJ by my friend Sean Kennedy, a Visiting Fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute:\u00a0 You\u2019re More Likely to Catch Covid at Home Than in Jail.\u00a0 The sub-head is:\u00a0 Early release policies have had no effect on transmission behind bars. But they have contributed to a crime wave.\u00a0 I thought these two paragraphs were particularly revealing: While hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans were on lockdown this spring, progressives were demanding that criminals be allowed to go free. So far, almost 100,000 inmates have been released from prisons and jails around the country\u2014with more to come. It can be no coincidence that crime is on the rise in states where these mass releases took place…. Some savvy jailbirds saw a golden opportunity to win their freedom. Inmates at North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, Calif., sought release by deliberately infecting themselves with the coronavirus. At least 21 of 50 prisoners who were caught on video drinking hot water from the same cup eventually tested positive for Covid-19. It isn\u2019t clear whether they got their wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clemency","category-prisons"],"yoast_head":"\nGuess What? The COVID Releases Are a Scam. - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1721\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guess What? 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