As a parade of cars circled the Cuyahoga County Justice Center Friday afternoon, honking for the release of Ohio’s incarcerated population, allied demonstrators rallied for widespread criminal justice reform.
Billed as a protest to demand the compassionate release of prisoners during COVID-19, the demonstration, organized by the Coalition to Stop the Inhumanity at the Cuyahoga County Jail and the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, became in many respects a prelude to Saturday’s (presumably larger) demonstration over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
