Rikers Island prisoners are being offered $6 an hour to dig mass graves
In Las Vegas, after one resident tested positive for Covid 19, a homeless shelter was emptied of about 500 residents, and a parking lot was designated as a temporary shelter, marked into concrete grids.
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But hundreds of hotel rooms remain open, as travel and entertainment industries there are shut down.
Quote: is offering prisoners at Rikers Island jail $6 per hour — a fortune by prison labor standards — and personal protective equipment if they agree to help dig mass graves on Hart Island, according to sources with knowledge of the offer. Avery Cohen, a spokesperson for the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed the general arrangement, but said that it was not “Covid-specific,” noting that prisoners have been digging graves on Hart Island for years.________________________________________________________
In Las Vegas, after one resident tested positive for Covid 19, a homeless shelter was emptied of about 500 residents, and a parking lot was designated as a temporary shelter, marked into concrete grids.
But hundreds of hotel rooms remain open, as travel and entertainment industries there are shut down.
