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It's not in the news as much anymore, but please don't forget that incarcerated people are still contracting and dying from covid at devastating rates. Covid cases in federal and state prisons have been 5.5 times higher—and death rates 3 times higher—than the general population.
At San Quentin in California, more than two-thirds of the incarcerated people there have contracted COVID-19.

fastcompany.com/90539380/bad-d…
As of July 2020 seven of the top ten coronavirus clusters in the United States were in jails and prisons. Not only are people being held in cages in an illegitimate carceral system, but their lives are being threatened by this virus and the insufficient responses to their plight.
Here is an important report the current covid situation in prisons and what can be done to protect people on the inside:

sites.lsa.umich.edu/dcc-project/wp…
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Since we’re on the topic, you cannot at once say that the criminal legal system is unjust, while also saying that ppl currently in prison should not have the right to vote. You can’t call a system illegimate and then use that system to justify taking away ppl’s most basic rights.
Even if we were to accept the current carceral system as legitimate, which it isn’t, there is nothing inherent to having committed a crime that prevents someone from participating politically. It’s a basic right of being a citizen, not something contingent on your behavior.
And perhaps if incarcerated people had the right to vote, we wouldn’t have a system that allows them to be treated so horrifically while they’re behind bars. Perhaps we’d be closer to giving people the things they need to prevent entanglement in the system in the first place.
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Just so we're clear, the idea--stated explicitly by some and implicitly by others--that Black people "don't care" about the violence happening in their communities is ridiculous, and largely reflects how the person saying so has clearly not spent much time in Black neighborhoods.
I grew up in New Orleans when it was the had the highest murder rate in the country, and *every single day* there were people doing work through advocacy, education, & mentorship. Bringing kids into their homes, their schools, their churches working to mitigate this violence.
And back then, just as is the case now, these people and these organizations are doing this work without the resources that would make them even more effective at scale. They are often taking money from their own pockets and doing the work to feed, counsel, and support young ppl.
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We must repeat it again and again. The death penalty is immoral. It is ineffective. It is expensive. It is cruel. It is laden with racism. It is full of mistakes. It is wrong. Nothing is made better by the government injecting someone with poison in our name. That is not justice.
As a reminder, 1 in 25 ppl on death row may be innocent. That's 4%. We would never allow planes to fly if they had a 4% chance of crashing. We would never allow a restaurant to serve food that had a 4% chance of killing ppl. It is immoral and inaccurate.

newsweek.com/one-25-execute…
"In the past 25 years, it has become increasingly apparent that, while much of the country has evolved beyond the death penalty, the states that remain most committed to it are those that once practiced slavery."

Now this includes our federal government.

newyorker.com/books/second-r…
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