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On March 7, 60 people rallied outside of a halfway house at 111 Taylor Street in San Francisco demanding that San Francisco Bayview editor and incarcerated journalist Keith \u201cMalik\u201d Washington, who is serving out the remainder of his prison sentence at the facility, be released to home confinement until his sentence ends in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporters of Washington pointed to the unsafe conditions in the halfway house, which do not allow for sufficient social distancing and potentially ushered in the January COVID outbreak that occurred there, as shown the in the expose documentary \u201cOne Eleven Taylor,\u201d produced by the Adachi Project, a media storytelling initiative bearing the name of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi, \u201cas justification for Washington\u2019s release to home confinement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nube Brown advocates for the release of Malik Washington, her fiance and the editor of the San Francisco Bay View National Black newspaper, in front of Geo Group\u2019s building at 111 Taylor St, San Francisco on March 7, 2021. The private prison company, Geo Group, has attempted to silence Malik Washington after he spotlighted a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility. According to the SF Bay View, Geo Group administered disciplinary actions including confiscating his cell phone, limiting public contact and threatened further disciplinary actions for exposing the outbreak. In addition to the release of Washington, the protesters demanded the abolition of Geo Group in California. Photo: Benjamin Fanjoy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Nube Brown, Washington\u2019s fiance and the managing editor of the Bayview, said that it would be safer and more humane for Washington to serve out the remaining months of his sentence at their home in the Bayview, saying Washington could more safely socially distance and work given that he has a stable living situation and gainful employment outside of the Taylor Street facility\u2014the ostensible end-goal of rehabilitation and re-entry services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A group advocating the release of Malik Washington, the editor of the San Francisco Bay View National Black newspaper, converged on the Geo Group building at 111 Taylor St, San Francisco on March 7, 2021. In addition to the release of Washington, the protesters demanded the abolition of Geo Group in California. Photo: Benjamin Fanjoy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMalik had a job before he got to the halfway house. He had family support. We knew we were going to be finding an apartment together before he got to this halfway house\u2026why can\u2019t he come home?\u201d said Brown. \u201cFor six months now, he has been coming back to this place night after night, when he could be coming home to someone that loves him, to a beautiful apartment, but he comes back here. How is that a halfway house, how is that successful to [his] re-entry?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Washington\u2019s release to home confinement, supporters called for the federal and California state governments to end their contracts with Geo Group, a multinational corporation that contracts with governments to operate for-profit re-entry facilities, including the halfway house on Taylor Street. They pointed to the company\u2019s COVID problems and the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the company\u2019s funding model. Geo Group gets paid depending on the number of prisoners occupying the facility\u2014which is supposed to be serving a mission of rehabilitation ending in residents\u2019 exit from the halfway house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rally-goers called for California to end all contracts with for profit private prison companies, such as Geo Group. It\u2019s currently illegal for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to approve new contracts or renew existing contracts with companies that operate private prisons, such as Geo Group, under AB32, which was signed into law in October 2019. But existing contracts are allowed to expire under their current timeline according to the law. 48hills requested a copy of the contract between Geo Group and the Federal Bureau of Prisons for operating 111 Taylor Street Apartments in January and has not yet received it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to demanding Washington\u2019s release to home confinement, supporters decried alleged retaliation Washington has endured during his time in the halfway home, including having his cell phone confiscated for roughly one month before having it returned on February 12 after soliciting media attention in January regarding a COVID outbreak in the halfway house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington has since sued the Geo Group and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which contracts with Geo Group to operate the halfway house, to remove disciplinary sanctions levied against him for \u201cunauthorized contact with the media\u201d and desist from future disciplinary actions for contacting the press until his release. Washington\u2019s next court is March 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents of the halfway house on Taylor street can have their phones and their right to leave the site for work revoked at any time the staff decides that is necessary. Brown criticized this policy, saying that both the carceral system and associated re-entry services are excessive in their curtailment of rights in response to transgressions, and that a re-imagining of rules of conduct in those systems is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to stop being tolerant of \u2018oh he broke a rule,\u2019 that shouldn\u2019t be a rule in the first place,\u201d said Brown, referring to the confiscation of Washington\u2019s cell phone after speaking out about the COVID outbreak. \u201cHe\u2019s a journalist, he shouldn\u2019t need authorization to speak to the people, it\u2019s part of his job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A group advocating the release of Malik Washington, the editor of the San Francisco Bay View National Black newspaper, converged on the Geo Group building at 111 Taylor St, San Francisco on March 7, 2021. In addition to the release of Washington, the protesters demanded the abolition of Geo Group in California. Photo: Benjamin Fanjoy\n\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, according to the complaint filed by Washington, there is a rule stating that a \u201cNews Interview Authorization Form\u201d must be filled out and approved before residents of the Taylor Street halfway house can contact the press. Brown said the policy operates as a \u201cgag rule,\u201d having the effect of silencing incarcerated journalists like Washington, as the time it takes to process and approve such requests to interact with the media precludes the ability to timely gather and report news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the slow wheel of justice\u2014this paperwork needs to be authorized here, and then this paperwork over here, and by the time you\u2019ve gotten approved, he wouldn\u2019t be able to do anything, the press conference would have been over,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes the Tenderloin, where 111 Taylor Street Apartments is located, criticized the alleged retaliation against Washington, saying that a free press is crucial to holding the government accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m an elected official, and journalists have the right and responsibility to tell us when we\u2019re not doing right \u2026 that is the right he has under the Constitution, and for a private prison company to try and lock him up because of that, I can think of nothing more shameful,\u201d said Haney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin also supported Washington, saying in a letter read during the rally that it is crucial that the freedom of the press is not obstructed, highlighting journalists\u2019 role of informing the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe last four years have shown the need for ensuring that people, especially those in the press, are free and able to tell truth to power\u2026it is especially concerning when people like Malik Washington, who are devoted to truth-telling, are targeted precisely for trying to ensure that critical information is made public,\u201d said Boudin. \u201cWe must ensure that the truth gets told to protect the vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A group advocating the release of Malik Washington, the editor of the San Francisco Bay View National Black newspaper, converged on the Geo Group building at 111 Taylor St, San Francisco on March 7, 2021. In addition to the release of Washington, the protesters demanded the abolition of Geo Group in California. Photo: Benjamin Fanjoy\n\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Geo Group has come under controversy in the past for other reasons, including for allegedly coercing detainees to work for a dollar a day, having unsanitary conditions at their facilities, and not protecting inmates from gang violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I reached out to Geo Group and the Federal Bureau of Prisons regarding the prospect of Washington\u2019s early release to home confinement for the remainder of his sentence, but heard no response by press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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