Black preachers urge release of low-risk inmates to slow virus spread in city jails
(WorldNews Health)

The Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity joined the voices of other organizations seeking the release of low-risk offenders in city jails to reduce their risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus. `If we are going to be about public safety, we really need to be about public safety for everybody,` the group`s former president, James Broadnax, said during a teleconference with local media. `What we have right now in our jails is a formula for disaster not only for the inmates, who would be literal sitting ducks in the event of an outbreak, but also for corrections officers, attorneys, social workers and others who risk bringing the virus home and spreading it in their communities....