The Impact of COVID-19 on Incarcerated People

Today's guest hosts are Brent J. Cohen and Edwith Theogene, Executive Director and Organizing Director for Generation Progress.

 

Medical and health care professionals, sanitation workers, grocery store employees, delivery workers, and many other folks are doing essential work to keep us all safe. They are all putting themselves at an elevated risk of contracting COVID-19 while doing this work.

There is another population of people who don’t have the option of protecting themselves from this pandemic—people who are currently incarcerated. To talk more about how this pandemic threatens the lives and safety of incarcerated people in the United States, and what counties, states, and the country can do to better protect them, the show is joined by DeAnna Hoskins, the president and CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, and Anthony Robles and Jared O’Brien, organizers with the Youth Justice Coalition in Los Angeles.

 

Here are the Twitter handles for today's guests and their respective organizations:  DeAnna Hoskins - @MzDeHoskins, JustLeadershipUSA - @JustLeadersUSA, Youth Justice Coalition - @YouthJusticeLA

The website for "Generation Progress" is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @GenProgress.  Brent J. Cohen's Twitter handle is @BrentJCohen and Edwith Theogene's handle is @WhoIsEdwith.