Pre-crime preventative detention and the stress forced upon all persons in carceral settings by the current global pandemic were the focus’ of an hour-long conversation on the Crossroads Radio show hosted by Roach Brown and Nkechi Taifa on WPFW 89.3FM, known as “Washington’s station for jazz and justice”. Olinda Moyd, who is the former Chief of parole division in the Public Defender Service in D.C., joined in on the conversation, and emphasized the fact that many of these individuals are being held involuntarily for technical or administrative violations of their parole and could easily be returned to their families.
to listen to Nkechi, Roach, and their special guests talk about how all persons serving time are directly impacted by the COVID-19 virus and their work with Just Future Project. Throughout the radio appearance, Olinda works to describe the horrific percentage of individuals in D.C. jails that are there for parole warrants — especially highlighting the case of Galen Baughman in Virginia, which was the focus of a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post. Shortly after minute 16 of 60, Moyd states “On any given day at the D.C. jail, about 1/3 of the population thats there are individuals who are there on parole warrants. Typically, these individuals are there for missed appointments, technical or administrative violations, and so again we’re talking about a population of individuals who could easily be returned to their families and loved ones”. At minute 49 of 60, co-host Nkechi Taisa states “Look at the people who have 10, 20, 30 years of life without parole. They live inside a room, a cell! They wont have the future confidence to order doordash or anything like that to have food delivered or anything along those lines. We are experiencing this for hopefully a short period of time, but here are those who are a part of our community who are incarcerated, where this is their always, everyday lifestyle. So, sympathy is an important part as well”.
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Full Crossroads Radio Show below.
Special thanks to Roach and Nkechi for inviting Just Future Project back to update their audience on the fight to free Galen and Mwando and for helping us bring light to shadow prisons! Follow Just Future Project on twitter and Instagram. Like, share and comment to join the awareness offensive. Together we can #abolishprecrime