"Clarity isn't about knowing what you want to do with your life, it's about knowing what you want to do this week.
You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to know your next step."
-@JamesClear
.@StatehouseM asks the governor: why no cuts to prisons? Here is his answer.
DeWine has touted the state's COVID-19 response re: prisons. As @jake_zuckerman has reported, the situation in several of the prisons is far more dire https://t.co/gtZxn8h2KA
BREAKING: @GovMikeDeWine announces $775M in Ohio budget cuts, with most coming to Medicaid, K-12 education and higher education.
The state is not spending a dime (yet) from its $2.7 billion "Rainy Day Fund."
33 people dead from #COVID19 in Ohio prisons๐จ
๐คDo you remember the last period of over 48-72 hours w/o an increase in fatalities?
Over 8% of the Ohio prison population is testing positiveโ๏ธ
๐กThe spread in our prisons doesnโt stay behind bars.
@acluohio#PeopleNotPrison
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Ohio's prison system is in a crisis because of #COVID19, and the state's response has been woefully inadequate. More than 4500 confirmed cases and 35 deaths. If we are really #InThisTogetherOhio we must be #Allin4AllofUs#PeopleNotPrisons
@GovMikeDeWine cannot avoid responsibility for these illnesses and deaths. But he can act now to reduce the inhuman conditions he has thus far accepted in his institutions.
BREAKING: In a sharp disconnect with the presentation during Gov Mike DeWine's daily briefing, conditions within Ohio's coronavirus-infected prisons described as 'war zone' and 'hell' by people who work there
https://t.co/7GIr2pWAY8
Without quick, decisive, and comprehensive action to reduce our prison population, the spread of #COVID19 will continue and more lives will likely be lost. Releasing or diverting ~1,300 people from our overcrowded prison system is WOEFULLY in adequate.