To the Editors: The federal judge Jed S. Rakoff has written a self-congratulatory account of the way he and his fellow judges have responded to the Covid-19 crisis, in particular regarding applications from inmates for release from prisons run by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Some federal judges have, indeed, risen to the crisis. But Judge Rakoff’s account of circumstances in federal prisons is shockingly ill-informed.
Source : Covid in the Prisons
