Dear Friends, 

Today’s the day – the National Day of Action to End Solitary Confinement! I’m looking forward to leading a delegation of people from the state where I live, New Jersey, as we lobby our members of Congress today. Altogether, nearly 200 advocates from over 35 states will join meetings with Congressional staffers and members in today's Virtual Day of Action to support the End Solitary Confinement Act. NRCAT is glad to join with our partners in the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce in these virtual visits. Thank you to those of you who signed up to join these meetings.

To all, you can join today’s National Day of Action to End Solitary Confinement by asking your members of Congress to co-sponsor the bill, joining a webinar at noon ET to learn more about the use of solitary in immigrant detention, and more:

• Educate yourself on the End Solitary Confinement Act, a historic piece of federal legislation aimed at ending solitary, and tell others about it using NRCAT's toolkit.
• Ask your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor the End Solitary Confinement Act – use NRCAT’s sample message to contact your Members of Congress and then ask your friends and community to do the same.  
• Say a prayer especially for the nearly 200 advocates who are meeting with the offices of Members of Congress today, as well as the 122,000 people currently in solitary confinement across the U.S. 
• Share about the Day of Action on social media using this easy-to-use toolkit.  
• Tune in to a virtual panel discussion at 12pm ET / 9am PT, focused on the impact of solitary in immigration detention – register here for the webinar "A View from the Ground: The Impact of Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention". 

In solidarity,

Johnny Perez 
Director, NRCAT’s U.S. Prisons Program 

“Revolutions do not happen only in grand moments in public view but also in small pockets of people coming together to inhabit a new way of being. We birth the beloved community by becoming the beloved community.” – Valarie Kaur