There have been a number of inmates released from prison during this pandemic because there has been concern that they might contract the virus.

I’ve written about the already a number of times and how stupid of an idea this is, but nonetheless, people still do it. You’ll have to excuse the sarcasm in the title, because what happened is PRECISELY what us rational people would expect to happen.

Rep. Jerry Nadler and Karen Bass pushed for Attorney General William Barr to consider releasing prisoners regardless of what they were imprisoned for.

Nadler and Bass wrote:

“We call on you, in the most urgent of terms, to do the right thing and exercise [authority to modify sentences of prisoners who present ‘extraordinary and compelling reasons’] and immediately move to release medically-compromised, elderly, and pregnant prisoners in the custody of the [Bureau of Prisons]. In addition, we urge that you use every tool at your disposal to release as many prisoners as possible, to protect them from COVID-19.”

Well, there were some who were released from prison for “fear of the coronavirus outbreak”. How did it turn out you ask?

One may who was just locked up for strangulation in March was caught trying to rob a bank, and another who was locked up for drugs ended up killing someone the very same day that he was released from prison.

“According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, deputies arrested 26-year-old Joseph Edward Williams for a homicide that happened in Tampa, Florida on March 20,” WBTV reported. “He is facing a second-degree murder charge along with resisting an officer with violence, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.”

Williams, who was arrested on March 13 on drug charges, was one of more than 100 inmates that were released from the Hillsborough County detention facilities on March 19 due to fear that the coronavirus could be spreading throughout the prison population.

“But now, deputies say, he has been arrested for a murder that took place March 20 along Ash Avenue in Tampa’s Progress Village neighborhood,” Fox 29 reported. “Deputies said the victim was found injured on the street, and he later died in the hospital.”

Sources:
New York Post | Daily Wire