SHAUN KING: What’s Happening Right Now As the Coronavirus Spreads at Rikers and America’s Other Jails and Prisons Is a Form of Genocide

Yesterday, I had a long phone conversation with a man who is incarcerated at Rikers Correctional Facility in New York. What he described for me only confirmed every other first-hand description of the deplorable conditions there. The men don’t have soap. I don’t mean special soap. I mean they don’t have soap at all. Even though we learned that incarcera…