So many of you have asked for ways you can get involved.
We are pleased to announce our Take Action page, and invite you to join us and our partners across Arizona and around the country in helping to protect incarcerated people from coronavirus and to bring them home!
Visit our Take Action page today!
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Help AFSC call on Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to immediately release all aging and vulnerable incarcerated people from Maryland prisons.
This request comes personally from the Friend of a Friend program. Andrew Parker-Bey was one of the early participants in the program and was the second incarcerated in the state. Please take a moment to sign and pass along through your networks.
Our friends in New York are attempting to compel Gov. Andrew Cuomo to use his clemency power to release vulnerable people from prison now, end prison labor that’s forcing incarcerated people to make hand sanitizer for less than $1/day, and stop rollbacks on bail reform. You can support Color of Change by signing this petition.
#cut50 joins many organizations across the country in urging every state to support recommendations and reforms that keep everyone safe against the coronavirus by implementing policies that ensure the safety, health, and overall wellbeing of incarcerated individuals – particularly during a pandemic. Add your name in support of recommendations and reforms that keep everyone safe during this pandemic.
FAMM is working to recruit pro bono (free of charge) lawyers to assist with compassionate release requests. Fill out their online COVID-Related Compassionate Release Questionnaire to see if FAMM can help you and your loved one.
Decision makers at every level must prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19 by taking action to promote the most effective strategy to #FlattenTheCurve. You can send letters to your local officials and demand they issue decarceral guidelines right now to prevent social spreading, jail “churn,” and the deaths of vulnerable people by visiting the Justice Collaborative’s COVID-19 resource page.
Download MJ’s talking points for six arguments you can use to oppose electronic monitors for people released from prisons and jails during the pandemic.
Connect to this directory of bail funds from all over the country to donate and #FreeThemAll!
Join Puente AZ, No Mas Muertes, the Mass Liberation Project, and others on Friday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. by car or online for a special action demanding releases of detained immigrants at the Eloy Detention Facility.
You can sign onto a public statement that’s one of several initiatives begun by our friends at SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project) Behind Bars to exclusively frame concerns around the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of incarcerated people, previously incarcerated people, and their families.
Starting Monday, April 13, TSCCBF is asking all of us in Pima County to call Barbara LaWall’s office and “disrupt injustice!” in order to compel the county attorney to implement a true decarceration plan now.
VOTE-NOLA has a list of demands for Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, including immediately granting 180 days of Good Time to everyone with less than six months left on their sentence, and issuing medical parole for everyone with respiratory conditions, and anyone who is immunocompromised and/or over 60 years old. You can help by making phone calls, sending emails, and amplifying these demands on social media.
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ABOUT OUR LOVED ONES WHO ARE INCARCERATED
Amen. Please pray for our loved ones who are currently trapped inside the walls of the correctional facilities that are around us. THIS IS WRONG. YES, THE INCARCERATED MIGHT HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME BUT WHO ARE YOU TO PUNISH THEM TO HAVING TO FIGHT THEIR WAY OUT OF THE WORLDS LARGEST PETRI DISH, KNOWING THAT IT IS INFECTED WITH COVID-19.
THEY CANT GO ANYWHERE TO GET AWAY FROM IT. AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO HAVING ANY OF THE PROPER CLEANING SUPPLIES THAT THEY WOULD NEED TO PREVENT THIS VIRUS FROM SPREADING TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR LOVED ONES, WHO ARE FORCED TO STAY THERE AND JUST WAIT UNTIL IT COMES TO THEM. THIS IS SO INHUMANE IT’S RIDICULOUS. AND I AM NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL MY LOVED ONE IS NO LONGER BEING FORCED TO SHARE LIVING AREAS AND RESTROOMS WITH THE POTENTIALLY INFECTED.
NO ITS NOT RIGHT. THIS VIRUS IS KILLING PEOPLE. WOULD YOU SHARE A ROOM OR CELL WITH SOMEONE KNOWING THEY COULD HAVE THE DEADLY VIRUS!. NO. WHAT IF WE TOOK AWAY ALL OF YOUR CLEANING AND DISINFECTING SUPPLIES. HOW WOULD ALL OF THIS MAKE YOU FEEL?…. THIS IS WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO OUR LOVED ONES. LOOK I UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES. BUT NO MATTER WHAT CRIME THEY HAVE OR HAVE NOT COMMITTED, NONE OF THEM SHOULD BE SENTENCED TO HOUSING AT RISK DURING THE PANDEMIC.
EVEN THE WORST CRIMINALS ARE STILL HUMAN BEINGS, WITH SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT CARES ABOUT THEM NO MATTER WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. WHO ARE YOU TO SENTENCE THESE INDIVIDUALS AGAIN FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN THEIR PAST, SENTENCING THEM TO AN INEVITABLE DEATH. I WILL NOT STOP SHOWING THE PUBLIC THE HORRIFYING TRUTH BEHIND THOSE BARS UNTIL MY HUSBAND IS NO LONGER BEING FORCED TO BE IN HARMS WAY.
( I LOVE YOU MR. FIERROS )