400 Years Since 1619: NYC Correctional Facilities Struggle With Crowded Jails and Lack of Resources, Urge the City to Release More Inmates

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the release of 40 of the city’s inmates who were convicted of minor, nonviolent offenses in order to lessen the burden on NYC prisons and jails affected by the coronavirus outbreak. After the city’s Board of Corrections declared in a letter (pdf) to NYC’s…