John,

Around 122,000 people in federal and state prisons and jails are trapped in solitary confinement for 22 hours or more each day. This is torture, and it’s disproportionately inflicted on Black and brown folks, young people, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized communities.

Rep. Cori Bush refuses to accept this status quo, so she recently introduced the End Solitary Confinement Act, which would end solitary confinement in federal prison and detention facilities and expand protections for incarcerated people’s right to due process. The bill would also incentivize states and local governments to end solitary confinement in state and local facilities.

Cori has been calling to end the harms of our racist criminal legal system since she was on the streets of the Ferguson Uprising as an activist and a nurse. During a protest, Cori herself was violently brutalized by police while trying to help a woman with a medical emergency.

As the first activist from the movement for Black lives to be elected to Congress, Cori understands how urgently we need change. She engaged with community groups around the country on her just-reintroduced bill, the People's Response Act, which supports cities, states, tribal governments, and community-based organizations in launching and scaling public health alternatives to policing.

Please chip in $5 or more today to support Cori’s bold leadership in Congress so together, we can urgently transform our system of public safety to center care, not criminalization.

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In solidarity,

Team Cori