In Indonesia, inmates in a prison in Manado rioted and set fire to buildings in response to rumours that a guard was infected
THE FIRST person to die from covid-19 on Rikers Island, a jail in New York City, exhaled his last breath on April 5th. The victim was a 53-year-old man, Michael Tyson, who died at a local hospital. He had been incarcerated for a technical, non-criminal parole violation and almost certainly caught the disease inside. Over the past month at least, the island has become a reservoir of the coronavirus.
In poorer countries, conditions make those even in American jails look good. In Latin America, the region with the most prisoners after America and China, inmates often rely for survival on family members bringing them extra food. There is often no running water. In El Salvador, inmates take turns sleeping in hammocks. In Brazil, four out of ten prisons have no doctor or nurse on site; more than 10,000 prisoners had tuberculosis last year.
The first country to try mass prison releases in response to the virus was Iran. On March 3rd it released some 55,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding. Over the past few weeks it has been followed across the world. By April 6th New York City had released around 1,500 people from city jails, to reduce overcrowding, including all of those thought to be most at risk of death or serious illness if they caught the virus.
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