Imagine you are a woman who experiences intimate partner violence and because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, you must shelter-in-place with your abuser. Leaving your home puts you at risk of contracting a potentially deadly virus, but staying at home can be just as perilous. The stressors that many Americans
Sheila’s 25-year-old son has been detained pretrial at Manhattan Detention Center (MDC) for almost three years. He hasn’t yet been convicted of any crime, but he’s losing hope that he’ll ever see home again. Two weeks ago, he told his mother that he’d lost his
A new report released last week from The Justice Collaborative and Data for Progress taps into the concerns that have been arising over the past month about the impact that COVID-19 will have on U.S. correctional institutions. The report, “Local officials should quickly reduce jail populations to slow the
With the coronavirus epidemic upending politics as we know it, organizations around the country are shifting the way they engage with communities, elected officials, and the political system as whole. One such group is TakeAction Minnesota, a statewide “multi-racial people’s organization building power for a government and economy that
Rapid response efforts to quell the spread of the novel coronavirus are revealing deeply embedded structural inefficiencies within countless institutions in American society—the criminal legal system being no different. Earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state’s new hand sanitizer would be manufactured by
Ever wonder how resources were allocated in your community? Or maybe why there are not enough hospital beds in the region where you reside? The census plays a big role in how state and local governments make decisions and how the federal government allocates funds. There are billions of dollars
Soraida Farias has never heard of National Farmworkers Awareness Week, but farm work has been a part of her life for as long as she can remember. Her father was a farmworker and like him, she now “works the grapevines” in California’s Central Valley, one of the most productive
For weeks, detained people and immigrants’ rights advocates have warned of the deadly catastrophe that would unfold in detention centers nationwide if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued to detain people as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the United States. Detained families told the news media they feared for
Farmworkers do life-sustaining work every single day. There are 2 to 3 million farmworkers who labor on farms, packing the sheds and greenhouses that dot the landscape of rural America. An estimated 900,000 of these workers are women. They harvest, pick, process, and pack the fruits and vegetables that
As the country adjusts to a new, precarious normal, people are making last-minute dashes to the supermarket, scouring their corner stores for soap and disinfectants, and heading to their local pharmacies to care for any medical needs. One by one, cities and states have been directing their residents to shelter
As the coronavirus pandemic escalates and the federal government fails to take meaningful, coordinated action to arrest the spread, the political press has latched onto a frustratingly flippant word to describe the Trump administration’s catastrophic failure of a response: “bungled.” In The Washington Post, one headline points out Trump’
At a time when anti-Asian discrimination has been heightened due to COVID-19, more groups are stepping into the spotlight to vocalize their support for the community. The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, in 2019, has infected hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since then, Chinese Americans—as well as
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