NEW: @GavinNewsom is facing mounting pressure to release elderly + vulnerable women from prisons where Covid is rapidly spreading.
They survived domestic violence and war. Some now have cancer.
So far he's released none. Read their words (thread)https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/california-prisons-elderly-women-clemency-coronavirus …
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Patricia Wright, 68, terminal cancer with months to live: “I’m frail and I’m just so afraid to die here. Loneliness is harder than cancer." Wright was convicted of a murder she didn't commit, accused of hiring someone to kill her abusive husband. She maintains her innocence.pic.twitter.com/V8S8dXvWkx
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Maria Aredondo, 67, has stage II breast cancer, also convicted of a murder she didn't commit (her gun was used in an attempted robbery that turned fatal). She's currently in chemotherapy and struggling to get basic medical care, as Covid spreads and locks down her prison.pic.twitter.com/mzyQ9DK4ma
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After recent chemo, Maria was moved to a dirty cell due to Covid quarantines and left alone without medical checks, her family told me. “Every time we hear from her, she says her health is deteriorating,” said her daughter, Maria Nuñez. 159 women have Covid in her prison.pic.twitter.com/1qvJlKP7am
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Shajia Ayobi, 54, fled the Soviet-Afghan war, and then survived a violent husband who had severe PTSD from the Army and tortured her and her four children in California. She was sentenced to life, accused of plotting to kill him.pic.twitter.com/tvED0zc1gM
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Shajia told me: “There are millions of women like me. My incarceration is nothing for me, because I come from a war-torn country. But separation from my kids, this is the harshest punishment. My kids were very vulnerable and they were very young and they needed me.”pic.twitter.com/htjEqc45zd
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Tomiekia Johnson, 41: “Being a victim and survivor of domestic violence means that you need an intervention. You need help, you need healing. “Sending them to prison, to places where anti-rehabilitation is the model, realistically it makes people worse.”pic.twitter.com/wkaD0xP8Zv
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Tomiekia was convicted of murdering her husband, sentenced to life. She said he had abused her + was assaulting her when they struggled over a gun. As a black woman, she was not believed, she said: “The system, they look at us differently, they look at us like we’re not victims”pic.twitter.com/rouflvSGuS
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Governor @GavinNewsom could immediately release these women. The state treasurer @fionama sent Newsom a list on May 1st of 25 eligible women who would have housing and services if he granted clemency + who could likely die from Covid-19 inside. He has released none of them.
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