We will be doing some extra episodes of Movement Memos around the escalating COVID-19 crisis in the prison industrial complex. I would appreciate any help uplifting those interviews & calls to action as they come. We need to get people out of those places as quickly as possible.
If any other building in the U.S. were becoming as deadly as those facilities are, it would be evacuated, and probably destroyed. That was true before COVID to be real, and it is more true than ever now.
Frightened people on the outside also have a way of forgetting that what happens inside the prison industrial complex doesn't stay inside. Guards are vectors and they will recirculate the disease steadily. What's incubated in prisons flows outward, always. It can't not.
This is about the humanity of the people who are caged in this country & about our own humanity, which we lose more of each time we deem people expendable. It's also about public health, bc sacrificing imprisoned people to this disease will strengthen & prolong the pandemic.
Some countries have emptied out entire prisons. They didn't do that because they were suddenly prison abolitionists. They did it because they knew they couldn't afford to create manufacturing centers for the disease. The U.S. is too obsessed w punishment to look at it that way.
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