How do we #StopCOVID19inJails?
This new video from @ellabakercenter shares heartbreaking testimony from people inside #SantaRitaJail, shining a light on the need to #FreeSRJ!
Our #HealthNotPunishment Director @amberakemipiatt offers the #HealthEquity case for decarceration 👇
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🗓️ THIS WEDNESDAY at 4p PST
Join our Program Director @amberakemipiatt & organizing partners to learn more about decarceration in Alameda County, California & what we need to do to #StopCOVID19inJails!
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#HealthNotPunishment #SaludNoCastigo
Public health workers must take action in solidarity with those who are leading work from the inside to #StopCOVID19inJails!
Here's what you can do to #FreeThemAll, while still practicing physical distancing to #FlattenTheCurve:
Thank you, @mediajustice @waazn1, for this resource on why we must release incarcerated people without electronic monitoring!
We say #NoDigitalPrisons today & always to advance #HealthNotPunishment & #StopCOVID19inJails, prisons, detention centers, & beyond.
Read up:
📢 CHICAGO!
We support the @ChiBondFund's letter of demands to #FreeThemAll and #StopCOVID19inJails 💯
Make your calls for #HealthNotPunishment today.
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🗞️ STARTING AT 1P PT
We joined ~50 community orgs in sending demands to protect the health & safety of Alameda County residents within & outside Santa Rita Jail.
Join our digital press conference to hear about progress to #StopCOVID19inJails TODAY at 1p:
bit.ly/ACdemands
📻 Catch our #HealthNotPunishment Director @amberakemipiatt LIVE on @UpfrontKPFA tomorrow morning at 8am PST!
She'll be in conversation with @CatsCommentary about what local/state officials need to do to #StopCOVID19inJails
Tune in at:
kpfa.org
Particularly during this coronavirus pandemic, we are acutely aware that "solutions" that call for further incarceration aren't workable.
We stand with @ShutDown850 & #AuditAhern, esp now to #StopCOVID19inJails!
Read more from #HealthNotPunishment Director @amberakemipiatt 👇
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Now @jduffyrice is wrapping us up, highlighting actions that federal, state, and local officials can and MUST take to #StopCOVID19InJails
Check out this regularly updated list of resources from @Justice_Collab:
thejusticecollaborative.com/covid19/
Next up: Brittany White of Live Free @FIAnational
"We should call on all governors across this country to eliminate/waive any copays or sick call fees."
Local/state officials sitting on their hands is unacceptable. This is 1 of many reasonable solutions to #StopCOVID19InJails!
Next up: @ErikaAndiola of @RAICESTEXAS @RAICESACTION
"We're really pushing to convince the ICE field officers to release folks."
There are reasonable solutions to #StopCOVID19InJails — ICE has the power/discretion to release every single person in ICE detention.