Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Denounces DE Governor’s for Inaction Following First COVID-19 Death at Sussex Prison

DOVER, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware (CPBD) announced the latest in its series of print ads in the Delaware News Journal to condemn Delaware’s corrupt status quo upheld by Governor John Carney and the rest of the Delaware political establishment as protests continue following a devastating COVID-19 outbreak at Sussex County Correctional Institution (SCI).

The ad reads, in part: “Black Lives Matter. But not to Delaware’s Elite,” and goes on to note that “In Governor John Carney’s Delaware, Black people are incarcerated at a rate of nearly 5:1 compared to their white counterparts, and prisoners are sickened and killed by COVID-19 at the 5th highest rate in the nation.”

Said Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Campaign Manager Chris Coffey, “Governor Carney continues to pay lip service to the demands for racial justice made by Black Lives Matter protesters while incarcerating Black Delawareans at an obscene rate and refusing to protect inmates from the deadly coronavirus, which is now spreading like wildfire in Delaware’s prisons.”