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No ID, No Job: How Coronavirus Left Parolees in Excruciating Limbo After Leaving Prison
With basic government services shut down, people granted parole are unable to get on their feet after leaving prison.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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De Blasio's Fireworks Crackdown Is the Same Violent "Quality of Life" Policing That Got Us Here in the First Place
To desire the policing of the fireworks over the presence of the fireworks is to stand on the wrong side of history.
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Supreme Court Upholds Trans People’s Workplace Protections — but Trans Lives Remain Under Constant Threat
The ruling was a necessary victory, but anti-transgender discrimination and violence remain firmly embedded in American life.
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Trump’s Threats to Antifa Are an Affront to Black Agency and a Risk to All Protest
Liberal voices claiming to support racial justice and oppose Trump have offered support for the pernicious “outside agitator” narrative.
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New York Appealed to Keep an Elderly Prisoner Behind Bars — Then He Got Coronavirus
Muntaqim, after a half-century behind bars, posed no risk to society, so a judge ordered him free. But the government’s appeal instead risked his life.
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A Detainee at Rikers Island Was Cleared for Release Because of the Coronavirus. Six Weeks Later, He's Still in Jail.
The same district attorney that locked David Campbell up has consented to his release amid the coronavirus pandemic. So why is he still in jail?
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The Perversity of Needing to See Ahmaud Arbery Die on Video to Recognize That His Black Life Mattered
It is its own grave affront that the circulation of intolerable scenes of brutality against black people remain necessary.
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With Millions Unable to Pay for Housing Next Month, Organizers Plan the Largest Rent Strike in Nearly a Century
The rent strike is aimed at pressuring politicians to respond in the only way appropriate to the exacerbated housing crisis: by canceling rent.
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Domestic Violence Is on the Rise With Coronavirus Lockdown. The Responses Are Missing the Point.
We need social and economic infrastructure and services so that women don’t depend on the patriarchal household structure for survival.
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What’s Wrong With Cheering Harvey Weinstein’s Reported Coronavirus Diagnosis
There’s no karmic justice in an illness that will indiscriminately infect thousands of people who are locked behind bars.