COVID-19 Outbreak At Rikers Putting Incarcerated At Serious Risk
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Kevin Steele, a father, abolitionist, and spokesman for the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee NYC chapter, to talk about the news that the Coronavirus outbreak has reached Rikers Island prison in New York, how the criminalization of basic hygienic supplies leads to conditions which seem certain to exacerbate the outbreak, and why the Coronavirus pandemic is demonstrating to working people everywhere that we have the systemic capability to provide for everyone's basic needs—and only lack the political willpower and organization.