“When You Arrest as Many People as We Do, You Cannot Protect Against Infectious Spread”
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/coronavirus-jails-prisons-cook-county-spread
About five million people nationally cycle through jails every year. Roughly 42 percent of them, according to an American Economic Review study that looks specifically at Philadelphia County and Miami-Dade County, will be proven innocent. And 95 percent nationally are taken to jail for nonviolent offenses — most of them for petty alleged crimes.