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It’s time for this categorical discrimination to be brought to an end.

South Florida now has more than half of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in Florida

Adham Hassoun's detention is alarming example of the government’s abuse of overbroad national security powers.

As Florida officials continue resisting efforts to significantly reduce the prison population and have been slow to publicly reveal their plans for handling a coronavirus outbreak in prisons, the 28th person incarcerated in the state has died from COVID-19.

“You’re on the list.”It took a few seconds for Chalana McFarland to grasp what was happening. Her name was one of just a few on the list of people who would be released from prison early due to COVID-19. Behind her stood a line of dozens of other women waiting to see if they made it. Only some of them had. But as Chalana received the news, they started cheering, and caused such an uproar that the correctional staff had to reprimand them. That’s when it finally clicked for Chalana — after 15 years in prison, she was finally going home. Chalana immediately contacted her daughter.“I was watching a movie with my roommate when I got the news,” says Nia, who is 19 and lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she attends university. “At first I was like, ‘What?’ I didn’t think it was real. Then I just fell over crying. I couldn’t even talk. Later, when we talked on the phone, I could hear the happiness in my mom’s voice that this was all finally going to be over.”