Is there a single governor, mayor, sheriff, district attorney, police chief, or judge in the country doing anything close to sufficient to prevent or stem COVID outbreaks, infections, & death in their jails/ prisons? I don’t think there is one. But please prove me wrong.
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Governors could issue mass pardons & clemencies and decarcerate by the tens of thousands with the stroke of a pen.
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Mayors could also order significant releases in their localities & call on their police forces to stand down & district attorneys to decline to prosecute and/or advocate for mass releases.
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District attorneys could decline to prosecute, consent to release or argue for it for those already detained. Certainly could stop asking for bail as a death sentence at the rate they are currently.
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Judges could stop business as usual bail setting and also start treating COVID as the “change in” and/or “exceptional” circumstance it plainly is, and grant emergency release writs filed by defenders throughout the country.
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Police could stop overpolicing Black and Brown neighborhoods. At the very least, they could stop broken windows policing, stop hunting people down on outstanding low level warrants.
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All leaders could use their bully pulpit to cut through the mythological, racist fear among the populace about who actually is caged & what their current incarceration & hopeful release actually means. Use this pandemic as an opportunity to underscore our joint humanity.
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By the way, every one of these people in positions of power to free people & enhance public safety and health, could and should take these measures whether in a pandemic or not. Their inaction now just underscores how deeply entrenched the status quo of cruelty is.
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Paul Retweeted Chasing Justice Podcast
The outroar again @chesaboudin , and @GeorgeGascon while he was SFDA has been relentless, our societies punishment fetish is deep and ingrained.https://twitter.com/ChasingPodcast/status/1293288113502998528 …
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