MUST READ: Washington Post: The last days of a covid-19 prisoner
It isn’t clear why Charles Hobbs was arrested in January. More than 20 years ago, a judge gave him five years probation for a crime that required him to register as a sex offender in one of the most restrictive counties in the country. He had no criminal record before that, and until his recent arrest at age 51, had no criminal record since. When the coronavirus pandemic began to sweep the country, a judge ordered him released from jail and placed in home confinement, given his multiple underlying conditions of congenital heart failure, kidney failure and hypertension.
But for reasons that also aren’t clear, that never happened. Last month, he caught the virus, and his condition deteriorated until a fellow prisoner found him unconscious. He was revived and transferred to another cell with other prisoners who had tested positive for covid-19. He got sicker and ultimately died alone in a Miami hospital on May 2.
For 22 years, Charles Hobbs tried to overcome the mistakes he made in 1997. But the stigma of a sex offense followed him all his life. Thanks to punitive laws, dizzying registration requirements and an indifferent corrections staff, his mistake would ultimately lead to his death.
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A 66 year old man died in the federal prison as well. Sentenced for 7 months for some type of supervised release violation stemming from a 2008 conviction. After several months of staying home while going thru the legal process of this violation he had to self turn in on March 31 and he died May 14.
We have to let our voices be heard. Please comment if you can or ask friends/family to do so for you. This situation is about as low as one can get. We have all witnessed the lack of transparency in the FDC, along with the lies and cover-ups. This includes county jails, too.
These people in jails make money off of other people’s misery and suffering. They should be held accountable, BUT NEVER ARE! Instead the main stream fake news media portrays them as the GOOD guys? Go figure! I sincerely hope that they get the same treatment as they give other people. That would be justice, but we know that they get fired from one pig job they get another job in another state or county. How is that even possible?????
It will only get worse as this so-called virus and mass media coverage of the simple fact to give up there freedom for security? From the government??
Here is what Thomas Jefferson said about security: If the people give up their freedom for a temporary security then the deserve NEITHER! They should know they at least had no fear of the tyrants that were coming for them.
Here is what Benjamin Franklin said about freedom: When the people fear the government then you have tyranny. When the government fears the people you have FREEDOM.