| COVID in
Fort Dix and Vaccine Cited To Get 8 Week
Delay of Surrender for Nkanga in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 21 – The issues of
COVID, and now some
vaccinations, in the Federal
penal system, are now
resulting in some extensions
of the time to surrended, for
example this:
"I represent
Nkanga Nkanga for his 2255
motion and I write in response
to the Court’s Order of March
1, 2021. The parties jointly
request that Dr. Nkanga be
ordered to surrender to the
Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on May
14, 2021. Allowing a May 14
surrender date will provide
Dr. Nkanga an opportunity to
maximize his immune response
to the vaccine and also allow
for the pandemic to subside
within FCI Fort Dix, which may
have been the hardest hit of
all BOP facilities over the
past one year.
According to
BOP’s Covid-19 website, there
remain 13 inmates and 40 staff
with active infections at Fort
Dix.1 In the past,
numbers that low have
increased to hundreds of
infections at Fort Dix within
days. We therefore request the
additional eight weeks from
today to permit Dr. Nkanga to
develop the strongest possible
immunity and provide more time
for BOP to reduce Covid-19
prevalence within Fort Dix.
Dr. Nkanga voluntarily
surrendered in 2019 and has
remained in perfect compliance
with his home confinement for
nearly one year. The
government therefore consents
to the May 14 surrender date."
And Judge Jesse
M. Furman has granted it. The
case is US v. Nkanga,
18-cr-713 (Furman).
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