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:

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📻 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:

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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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COVID-19 | The Justice Collaborative The emergence of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is causing great concern due to its rapid spread and high death rates, particularly among vulnerable

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.