Dear Friends, Please join me this Thursday, July 9th, from 2pm-3pm ET for the last in a series of Fireside chats on Faith, Race, and Justice marking the end of Torture Awareness Month. Please register HERE. I will be joined by Marc Levin, Chief of Policy & Innovation at Right on Crime of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. We will discuss correctional responses to COVID-19, including how to appropriately use medical isolation and quarantining without resorting to prolonged punitive solitary confinement and how to safely increase reliance on community-based public safety approaches. Please see Mr. Levin’s recent article in Law360 making a case against solitary confinement. This conversation is for people who are looking for further insight as to why solitary is never the answer to COVID and are looking for practical policy solutions to support protecting currently incarcerated people. Lastly, we hope you have had the opportunity to read the recent special report published by the Unlock The Box Campaign. Based on the research of the national watchdog group Solitary Watch, the report highlights a 500% increase in the use of solitary confinement during COVID-19. We look forward to sharing virtual space with you as our work is as important now as it has ever been. All the best, Johnny Perez
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