“What we’re seeing is prisons and jails revert to their core function, which is warehousing human beings in conditions that are largely inhumane and medically unsafe,”

“If you put together vulnerability and low risk of danger to public safety, it’s kind of a no brainer that the people that you should release are the elderly prisoners. They’re more susceptible to getting very very sick from the virus, and they are about zero danger to public safety,” he explained. “The major indicator of risk of being a criminal – or at least a violent criminal – when you get out is your age. Older people are almost always safe to release.”