Bay Area activists say prisoners deserve COVID-19 relief in new protest Sunday

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OAKLAND, CA — Activists in Oakland caravanned across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco today calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom…

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Mercury News

Elliott Almond
January 31, 2021

OAKLAND — A car caravan Sunday marked the latest attempt to draw attention to the plight of the state’s incarcerated population amid major prison and jail outbreaks of COVID-19, a debate that’s drawn new attention as limited supplies of the vaccine are distributed among at-risk populations.

The rally that took about 100 cars over the Bay Bridge into San Francisco was the latest protest in an eight-month campaign that has become part of a broader conversation about health equity and prison reform.

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