Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the US state of California wants to release up to 8,000 more prisoners early. „This measure serves the health and safety of inmates and staff,“ said the California prison authorities today.
The prisoners could be released from overcrowded prisons by the end of August. Since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, 10,000 prisoners have been released from prison early in the West Coast state, which has been severely affected by the pandemic.
Numerous infections in prisons
The further releases were announced shortly after numerous new infections in San Quentin prison became known. The prison, which is one of the oldest in the United States, had more than a thousand inmates tested positive for the corona virus. A total of 113,000 people are in prison in California.
A week after her release, people are to be tested again for a coronavirus infection. The most populous U.S. state of California has reported more than 300,000 infections and more than 6,800 deaths related to the corona virus.
Over 66,000 new infections in one day
For the first time since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States reports more than 66,000 new infections in a single day. According to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the number of new infections registered the previous day was 66,627.
It was only on Thursday that the number rose to a record high of 63,247. The number of new infections in the United States, a country with around 330 million inhabitants, has increased dramatically since mid-June as the corona virus requirements are relaxed.
Since the pandemic started, JHU researchers in the United States have recorded a total of nearly 3.2 million coronavirus infections. As a result, more than 134,000 people died as a result of Covid 19 disease.
The number of deaths recorded daily in the United States is still significantly lower than at the height of the crisis, but has increased again in recent days. Yesterday the university’s statistics recorded 802 deaths.
