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John, 

You've likely seen an email about this crisis from us before, and that's
because there are 4,000 elderly and/or immunocompromised lives at stake,
and we need your help.

Unless we push Biden to grant these 4,000 people clemency, they will be
sent back to prison, ripped from their families and communities once again
after over a year of reconnecting and re-establishing themselves while
living under home confinement. 

This cruelty is unimaginable and we can't let it happen. Join us in
demanding President Biden grant clemency to all those on home confinement
today! 

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition for clemency!

John, let's refresh: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
last year, Congress passed the CARES Act, which allowed thousands of
people to be sent home to finish their sentences on home confinement after
being heavily vetted, screened, and determined to not have been part of a
violent crime. 

People like Lawrence McCarroll, who has already served over 27 years for a
non-violent first-time drug offense, have been able to reconnect with
their families, provide for their communities, start school, open credit
cards, and get jobs.

But unless Biden grants clemency to all of the 4,000+ people on home
confinement like Lawrence, all of that progress will come to an abrupt and
cruel end when they are sent back to prison whenever the health emergency
subsides.

And in the meantime, these people are living in tortoruous limbo under
strict confinement. Lawrence isn't even able to sit with his aging mother
as she receives chemo treatments. 

John, this is simply inhumane.

 

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John, we want to let you know that we have already moved the
Adminsitration and Department of Justice, but we need to push them
further. 

The Administration has decided to send clemency applications to all
non-violent drug offenders on home confinement with 4 or less years left
on their sentences. And just this past Wednesday, the DOJ said they will
rework the legal memo which says people must be returned to prison
whenever the pandemic subsides.  

But John, it's not enough for people to continue living on home
confinement. Under these restrictions, people like Amanda Cooper, who is
dealing with health issues as a result of medical neglect in prison, can't
even go to the emergency room without checking with her halfway house
first.

This is no way to live. We need CLEMENCY, not more confinement. And we
need clemency for ALL of the individuals on home confinement, not just
some.

Everyone in the program was already rigorously vetted by the Bureau of
Prisons in order to be on home confinement in the first place. And almost
everyone released has since been thriving at home by reconnecting with
their friends, families, and communities, and engaging in civic and
professional life. 

We can’t let Biden pick and choose who deserves to be at home with their
families and who deserves to be locked up in a cage based on historically
racist criteria. 

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John, unless we move him, Biden will be presiding over the
fastest expansion of the federal prison population in history when the
pandemic is declared over. 

Granting clemency to those on home confinement who were released to curb
the spread of COVID in prisons is well without Biden's powers, and a vital
corrective mechanism in a criminal justice system that, at its core,
criminalizes Black communities. 

But clemency powers are historically not used enough because of political
reasons, not because people are undeserving of being freed from prison. 

John, we need to remind Biden that the political and moral
fallout of re-caging people at the end of this pandemic is an egregious
mischaracterization of justice. 

If Biden is going to make a meaningful impact towards ending racialized
mass incarceration, he needs to grant clemency to the 4,000+ people living
on home confinement today.

[ [link removed] ]add your voice: people belong home, not in cages.

 

Until Justice is Real,

Scott, Erika, Rashad, Arisha, Malachi, Megan, Ernie, Palika, Ariel,
Madison, Trevor, Erick, Ana, Kristiana, McKayla and the Color Of Change
team



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