Now, they said, with the economic fallout of the
Coronavirus pandemic, the costs are especially debilitating, separating families at a crucial time.
“It’s hard for guys trying to be husbands, trying to be fathers, trying to do the right thing,” Thomas Gant, who is incarcerated at Wende Correctional Facility in
New York, said Tuesday.
The coronavirus outbreak has put a spotlight on the conditions in America’s prisons and jails, which house more than 2.2 million people, with people of color making up a disproportionate number of those imprisoned.