“Give me liberty and give me COVID-19” is a dangerous strategy that won’t get you out of jail, according to officials in California.
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department says more than a dozen inmates were part of a “dangerous plot” to share the novel coronavirus at a California correctional facility, in hopes of contracting COVID-19 and being granted an early release.
The plot was based on a “gross misunderstanding” that inmates would be released if they tested positive for the disease, the sheriff’s department said in a statement.
L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says 21 inmates tested positive for COVID-19 “as a direct result” of an effort to spread the disease with a shared water bottle. “It’s sad to think that someone deliberately