'Make things right': criminal justice officials urge California to release prisoners amid Covid-19 surge

  • San Francisco attorney general and lawmakers issue joint call
  • San Quentin prison has recorded 1,500 cases and seven deaths

California lawmakers and top criminal justice officials joined organizers and families to urge the California governor, Gavin Newsom, to release thousands of people from state prisons, as several of the state’s facilities battle dramatic surges in coronavirus cases.

“We are in the middle of a humanitarian crisis that was created and wholly avoidable,” said the California assembly member Rob Bonta at a press conference in front of San Quentin state prison on Thursday.

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