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[ [link removed]- ]ADD YOUR NAME: JAIL MONEY HAS NO PLACE IN SHERIFF ELECTIONS!

John,

Each year, private companies — within industries ranging from real estate
to tech and health care — spend millions of dollars to influence county
sheriff races in counties across the country. 

These donations to Sheriff campaigns are strategic. In return for their
donations, companies receive contracts with local sheriff offices to build
new jails, administer health care services for incarcerated people, charge
exorbitant rates for communication services like phone and video calls,
and supply other basic services that should be provided to incarcerated
people for free by local municipalities — not private companies.^1 

John, let’s be clear: Sheriffs are public officials tasked with
protecting their constituents, yet they’re taking money from private
corporations that profit from keeping people — particularly Black people —
locked up. This is an egregious conflict of interest that must be
stopped. 

[ [link removed]- ]Sign the Petition: Join Color Of Change, Common Cause, and Communities
for Sheriff Accountability in demanding that jail Money has no place in
Sheriff Elections. 

[ [link removed]- ]GET JAIL MONEY OUT OF SHERIFF ELECTIONS!

Across the country, county sheriffs make more than 2 million arrests each
year and control county jails that admit more than 11 million people
annually.^2 Sheriffs unnecessarily fill local jails in order to keep their
campaign donors happy and their companies profits high, ultimately playing
a huge role in our country’s mass incarceration problem. 

Sheriffs control nearly every aspect of life for incarcerated people. The
contracts they make with private companies determine how expensive
communication services cost, their contracts with medical providers
determine how frequently incarcerated people will have access to their
medication and doctor visits. 

Rather than provide services that prioritize their communities' needs,
Sheriffs cave to pressure from private companies — companies that control
Sheriffs’ re-election prospects.

To make matters worse, every year more than 1,000 people die in county
jails. These deaths could be avoided, if local Sheriff’s priorities were
different. Black people’s futures and safety shouldn’t be for sale to the
highest bidder. This is a clear conflict of interest that costs people's
lives.

[ [link removed]- ]John, When jail money no longer influences sheriff
elections, our votes will have more say in how public funds are spent and
ultimately how jails are run. Join us in demanding jail money be removed
from sheriff campaigns across the county. 

Until justice is real, 

The Criminal Justice & Democracy Team, Color Of Change.

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References

1. [ [link removed]- ]The Paid Jailer. Common Cause.

2. [ [link removed]- ]Jail Inmates in 2017. U.S. Department of Justice, April 2019


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