Join AFSC-AZ’s partners across Arizona and around the country in helping to protect incarcerated people from coronavirus and to bring them home!
Friend of a Friend
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.
Color of Change
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.
The Dream Corps / #cut50
#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
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.
Justice Collaborative
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.
Media Justice
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.
National Bail Fund Network
Connect to this directory of bail funds from all over the country to donate and #FreeThemAll!
Puente Movement
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.
SWOP Behind Bars
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.
Tucson Second Chance Community Bail Fund
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.
Voice of the Experienced – New Orleans
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.