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California’s coronavirus policy has reached a point of contradiction: the state is releasing inmates from its jails to prevent the spread of coronavirus in close quarters, while at the same time moving homeless people to recreation centers in residential areas.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was grilled by New Yorkers who said they are fed up with the rising crime rate in the city, blaming his policies of neighborhood jails, homeless shelters in communities, and the state’s new abolishment of bail for criminals deemed “non-violent.” 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that will prohibit for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers from operating inside the state. 

Large numbers of U.S. citizens convicted and serving time in county jails will be legally eligible to vote under California law in the November 2018 mid-term elections.

The mayor of New York is offering male criminals the chance to move into women’s jails, providing the men say they have a “female gender identity.”