Take Action - Contact your Governor about COVID-19 Response in Prisons and Jails

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TAKE ACTION: Contact your Governor about COVID-19 Response

Join NRCAT in calling on your Governor to take steps to ensure that incarcerated people and corrections staff are protected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our sisters and brothers behind bars who are incarcerated and those who work in facilities that house them, deserve protection, dignity and care.

Additional resources to share with your state officials:

A two-page PDF published by MASS Design Group on how to convert and design spaces for infection control, including design for social distance, not social isolation.

Coronavirus Guidance Documents from the Vera Institute of Justice for the Criminal and Immigration Legal Systems, focusing on prevention and containment of the virus.

COVID-19 Guidelines from AMEND, focusing on decreasing population density in correctional facilities to reduce the transmission risk in local communities..

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Subject: Ensure the care of people held in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Dear Governor, As a person of faith and your constituent, I am writing with concern for all incarcerated people and corrections staff in our state during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no social distancing inside of correctional institutions transforming these spaces into hidden epicenters of COVID-19 transmissions. Most of the people who are incarcerated will be released one day and the current moment has not only placed their lives at risk, but also the lives of the people in the communities they will eventually return to, including their own families. Not just those who are incarcerated, but the people who work in these spaces are also in danger of not only transmitting the virus, but also spreading it to the most vulnerable amongst us. With shared concern for protecting our communities, I urge you to ensure the following: - Take concrete steps to release the highest number of people possible from all jails and state prisons, beginning with the most vulnerable. - All people who live and work in correctional facilities have access to adequate testing and personal protective equipment to help stop the spread of COVID in these spaces. This includes increased access to hygiene products. - Correctional leaders do not respond punitively, potentially discouraging the sick from reporting their symptoms. This includes ensuring Correctional leaders never use solitary confinement as a containment strategy for COVID-19. In times like these, our moral responsibility to protect the lives of our fellow human beings is more important than ever. Our state needs strong leadership centered on compassion and and the inherent dignity of every person, and policies which reflect these shared values. We look forward to supporting you in protecting incarcerated loved ones.

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We encourage you to be in contact with other advocates in your state in calling for your Governor and other officials to take steps to ensure that incarcerated people and corrections staff are protected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are more resources:

A two-page PDF published by MASS Design Group on how to convert and design spaces for infection control, including design for social distance, not social isolation.

Coronavirus Guidance Documents from the Vera Institute of Justice for the Criminal and Immigration Legal Systems, focusing on prevention and containment of the virus.

COVID-19 Guidelines from AMEND, focusing on decreasing population density in correctional facilities to reduce the transmission risk in local communities.

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-- Just Mercy, which is available now for purchase or rental on streaming services. Just Mercy is based on the story of Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard educated lawyer who has devoted his life to representing the wrongfully accused who have been sentenced to death.

-- The Report, now streaming on Amazon Prime. The Report is the story of the U.S. post-9/11 CIA torture program, and the political drama of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation which led to the U.S. passing new laws banning torture in 2015. NRCAT advocated for an end to U.S. torture throughout the period depicted in the film, and was a key part of this victory. The Report has graphic scenes of torture, so it's not suitable for young children.

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