Andrew Cuomo sets more than 1,000 New York inmates free amid coronavirus crisis
by Dominick Mastrangelo
| March 28, 2020 09:30 AM
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the release of more than 1,000 low-level offenders from local jails across the state to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
"Wherever we can get people out of jails, out of prisons, now, we are," Cuomo said Friday on MSNBC.
An estimated 1,100 individuals will be available for release, including people who have failed drug tests or failed to appear for court dates or violate the orders of their parole.
The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said it has been told by the governor's office to begin processing the release of these inmates immediately.
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