John, did you hear about this?

Kastellio Vaughan, a person incarcerated at Elmore Correctional Facility in Alabama, looked healthy the last time his sister saw him in July. But things changed, and fast.

3 weeks ago, Kastellio had been complaining about stomach pain. His family then received a call from a fellow incarcerated person: Kastellio had undergone surgery at the prison, where they removed part of his intestine.

Kastellio’s sister then received photos — disturbing photos. In the images Kastellio lost a dangerous amount of weight, has a long scar down his chest, and has his head to the side with his eyes rolled to the back of his head.

Under the images it said “GET HELP.”

The images are so bad, we chose not to include them in this email.

He looks near-death. 

This is a BLATANT human rights violation. And it’s exactly the kind of horror we see from mass incarceration everyday, which is why we fight so hard at Real Justice to elect District Attorneys who focus the resources of their office on rehabilitation, treatment, and other alternatives to incarceration.

Our DAs fight these kinds of issues head on, by working to reduce the footprint of the horrific prison system and the crimes committed by the people who run them.

Every single DA candidate we have helped elect over the past five years has led to more wrongful convictions being overturned, more kids treated like kids, and more people getting the treatment and rehabilitation they need instead of jail cells.

And November is a BIG opportunity to expand our movement, with 9 Real Justice DAs on the ballot. With your help we can make sure that even more civil-rights minded DAs get elected and hold the people who commit these human rights abuses accountable, instead of propping up a system that allows these inhumane conditions to continue.

Please, we are coming up on a MAJOR deadline this Friday — our final End of Quarter goal before Election Day. What we raise today tells us just how much we can fight to elect DAs who will end mass incarceration and the human rights abuses that come with it.

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Together, we can protect people like Kastellio, and finally put an end to the system that has hurt him so badly.

In solidarity,

Real Justice