(Sacramento, CA) — Governor Gavin Newsom is planning to release eight-thousand prisoners to alleviate overcrowding and help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Prisoner attorney Donald Specter tells the San Francisco Chronicle the releases will come on a rolling basis, and they’ll include both people who were scheduled to be freed soon as well as people at high risk for serious complications if they contract the virus.
The release could include up to 700 people from high-risk prisons like San Quentin, Folsom and the California Medical Facility. State prisons have about 65-hundred people who are high risk medically for COVID-19 and low risk for recidivism.
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