New York, May 31 (RHC)-- In New York, scores of activists held a car caravan protest outside the notorious Sing Sing prison, demanding that Governor Andrew Cuomo immediately release prisoners at risk of COVID-19.  At least four Sing Sing prisoners have died of the disease, and dozens more have tested positive.

Elsewhere, protesters deposited effigies of body bags outside New York City Hall this past week to mourn the deaths of 78 unhoused New Yorkers during the pandemic.  The protesters held signs reading “Mayor de Blasio: There is blood on your hands.” 

The protesters are demanding the city open thousands of vacant hotel rooms to unhoused people to self-isolate and for an end to punitive sweeps against the homeless.