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Our show this week is ever so slightly off the normal path of registry issues; but not so far as it doesn’t apply. We discuss a lot of about COVID-19 and the economy. These subjects don’t impact us directly, necessarily. But indirectly they are impacting the world, the country, your state and ultimately it is impact People Forced to Register.

[17:09] GA arresting people for failure to register in spite of stay at home order. “I’m starting a list of everyone arrested in Georgia for Failure to Register during the pandemic.  It’s especially important to capture those arrested during the Governor’s stay at home order. I think we should write a letter to the DA and Judge for each of these demanding their immediate release.”

[21:25] https://thecrimereport.org/2020/03/27/dont-have-your-felon-card-in-alabama-thats-a-crime/

[28:36] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/01/825448006/second-federal-inmate-dies-from-covid-19

After the COVID-19 Release of Prisoners, Who Will Help Them?

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2020/03/27/48265/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/04/03/probation-and-parole-officers-are-rethinking-their-rules-as-coronavirus-spreads
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/1/21202808/coronavirus-federal-prisons-doj-barr-14-day-quarantine
https://theappeal.org/a-public-health-doctor-and-head-of-corrections-agree-we-must-immediately-release-people-from-jails-and-prisons/
https://theappeal.org/coronavirus-prison-commutations/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/25/release-prisoners-or-face-jail-pandemic-says-chief

The Coronavirus Pandemic Makes the Case for Criminal Justice Reform

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/insight-protecting-prisoners-in-pandemics-is-a-constitutional-must
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/31/rikers-island-coronavirus-spread/

Texas Inmates Sue for Access to Hand Sanitizer as Coronavirus Threatens Prisons

https://www.businessinsider.com/failure-to-release-prisoners-is-condemning-thousands-to-death-2020-4

Can COVID-19 Force Us to Take Criminal Justice Reform Seriously?

[42:15] Scalia

[56:49] https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2020-03-28/hawks-no-more-fiscal-conservatives-embrace-rescue-package
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305789
https://www.thebalance.com/current-us-discretionary-federal-budget-and-spending-3306308
https://www.statista.com/statistics/315032/us-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-total-costs/
https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-federal-government-spending-3305763

[1:01:21] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/27/coronavirus-is-expanding-surveillance-state-how-will-this-play-out/
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-surveillance-used-by-governments-to-fight-pandemic-privacy-concerns.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-coronavirus-surveillance-new-powers-2020-3

Will Privacy Be Another Casualty of the Pandemic?

[1:13:17] https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/03/30/sotomayor-bowing-to-futility-i-will-cease-noting-my-dissent-in-sentencing-dispute/

[1:15:28] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/01/us/politics/ap-us-felon-voting-second-chances.html

[1:19:22] https://www.reddit.com/r/SexOffenderSupport/comments/fu8hlg/covid_sba_stimulus/

[1:22:14] http://legalnews.com/detroit/1486706/

 

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