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John, 

Did you know there are currently 18,000 people waiting for their clemency
applications to be reviewed, but instead President Biden's first grant
went to...a turkey?!

Among those waiting to hear about clemency are 4,000 people, the majority
of whom are elderly or immunocompromised, currently finishing their
sentences on home confinement after being heavily vetted by the Bureau of
Prisons and released to curb the spread of COVID-19 in prisons. 

John, we know it's a silly tradition for the President to
pardon turkeys on Thanksgiving Day, but our country doesn't need silly
outdated traditions. Especially not when there are thousands of people
waiting to find out if they'll ever get to spend the holidays with their
families again. 

[ [link removed] ]join us to demand biden pardon people not turkeys!

John, almost everyone released has been successfully finishing
their sentences, reconnecting with friends, taking care of family, getting
jobs and enrolling in school despite the restrictive, challenging, and
carceral terms of home confinement.

But because of a Trump-era legal memo that says they must return to prison
whenever the pandemic recedes, their only recourse is for Biden to grant
them clemency. 

President Biden promised he'd cut the prison population in half and help
put an end to racialized mass incarceration. And yet, when asked if he'd
be pardoning any people in addition to turkeys this year at a press
conference outside the White House, Biden responded in a joking manner:
"just turkeys."^1

But John, this isn't a joke. There are real lives and real
people at stake!

And if Biden doesn't grant them clemency, he may soon be presiding over
the largest expansion of the federal prison population in history.

[ [link removed] ]send a letter: tell biden we need clemency, not jokes!

We have been working hard to move Biden toward granting clemency over the
past year, and are making great progress. 

In fact, the Administration has signaled willingness to grant clemency for
people with non-violent drug offenses on home confinement.

But John, ALL of the individuals on home confinement need
clemency now. Everyone in the program was already rigorously vetted by the
Bureau of Prisons in order to be on home confinement in the first place. 

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. 

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.

This Thanksgiving, please join us to keep families together, get people
home, and demand our President: 

[ [link removed] ]Prioritize people over turkeys!

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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