Friday news and notes

1. The Herald is doing a lot of good reporting on the awful conditions in Florida prisons and what judges and lawyers are doing to help folks.

2. Michael Cohen was released. (So was Avenatti).

3. But more needs to be done. From the Brennan Center for Justice.

4. From Professor Berman's blog, check out these numbers which are now dated:

To provide some context for these number, consider that the federal inmate population is "only" 175,000, and yet there are already 13 official COVID deaths within the federal inmate population [as of 4/13; this number is now way higher]. This is more COVID deaths than are being reported right now by the Worldometer accounting in seven distinct US states: Wyoming (population nearly 600,000), Alaska (nearly 750,000), North Dakota (nearly 800,000), South Dakota (nearly 900,000), Montana (over 1 million), Hawaii (nearly 1.5 million), and West Virginia (population nearly 1.8 million). This is also more COVID deaths than are reported right now by the Worldometer accounting in countries such as Qatar (population nearly 3 million), New Zealand (nearly 5 million), Slovakia (nearly 5.5 million) Singapore (over 5.5 million).