This can’t wait.
Further delays in decarcerating our jails and prisons in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis will be the difference between life and death. Overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in our state and federal facilities, and an uneven ability to provide critical medical care, have long left those behind the wall especially vulnerable to infectious diseases like COVID-19.
Will you join Ayanna in calling on the occupant of the White House and this administration to immediately pursue aggressive decarceration in our federal prisons? COVID-19 shouldn’t be a death sentence for anyone behind the wall.
Ayanna is calling on the occupant of the White House to:
- Maximize the use of his clemency power to commute the sentences of elderly individuals who do not pose a current and substantial safety risk.
- Maximize the use of his clemency power to commute the sentences of medically vulnerable individuals who do not pose a current and substantial safety risk.
- Establish streamlined procedures to release individuals who have not been convicted of any crimes and are awaiting trial in prison or jail, and commute the sentences of individuals who have one year or less remaining on their sentence, if these individuals do not pose a current and substantial safety risk.
In Massachusetts, we’ve seen leadership from leaders like Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins, who has fought to achieve decarceration at the state and local level. We need our elected officials on the federal level to follow suit.
Thank you for making your voice heard,
The A-Team
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