John, thousands of people who were released from prison during the pandemic, and have been safely reconnecting with their families and friends, are now at threat of being re-incarcerated.
These are real people - mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, community members - who have been spending their home confinement supporting loved ones financially and emotionally.
And unless Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinds a Trump-era memo stating that they need to return to prison after the pandemic is declared over, they will be once again ripped from their homes.
Join us in demanding that we keep 4,500 people home.
If we don’t move Attorney General Garland to act, people like Gwen Levi, a 75 year-old cancer survivor, will be sent back to prison.
Gwen was sent to home confinement in June of 2020 after serving 16 years of a 24-year sentence. She now lives in Baltimore with her 94-year-old mother, and fears her mother won’t be able to survive if she is sent back to prison.1
Gwen belongs at home with her mother, not in a prison cell.
Voice your support for Gwen and so many others.
John, we now know just how deadly the threat and spread of COVID-19 is inside prisons.
That’s why we were relieved to learn last year that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) would be releasing 7,000 incarcerated individuals - all of whom are elderly and in poor health - to home confinement.2
But even despite the 99.9% success rate of home confinement, the Trump Administration used its final days to issue a legal memo that would not only force people to return to federal prison, it would also require them to raise the funds necessary to pay for their own return.3
John, this is clearly about punishment, not public safety. People will always have a better chance at staying safe and healthy when they are at home with their communities.
Add your name: Demand Attorney General Garland keeps people home.
The Biden administration committed to supporting racial justice and ending mass incarceration.
But if the administration won’t keep 4,500 elderly people home after they were thoroughly vetted by the BOP and have been safely living on home confinement, then how can we expect them to live up to this promise?
Sign now and together we can hold the administration accountable.
Until Justice is Real,
Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Megan, Erika, Malachi, Ernie, Palika, Madison, Ariel, Trevor, Ana, McKayla, and the rest of the Color Of Change team.
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REFERENCES:
1. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/309147?t=8&akid=51148%2E4731121%2EHZVi_K
2. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/307617?t=10&akid=51148%2E4731121%2EHZVi_K
3. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/309148?t=12&akid=51148%2E4731121%2EHZVi_K
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