The Covid-19 pandemic has made what was once a matter of restorative justice is now an urgent matter of life and death. Across the United States —Jails and prisons, with their cramped quarters and communal living, have become hotbeds for the spread of the coronavirus. It has prompted local governments to take the unprecedented step of releasing thousands of inmates — and raising the fraught question of who is let out and who remains in custody. The rap world has been focused on this topic because of Tekashi 69 and YNW Melly but the issue is much bigger than that for the thousands of inmates who are locked up on outdated cannabis convictions.
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