I sure hope every adult in the United States includes people incarcerated in our prisons @POTUS

Currently, the vast majority of folks in the BOP have not been vaccinated and many states have not prioritized incarcerated people at all

At least 2,474 people have died
That rate of death is around 3X the rate of death in the general population

People in prison can't socially distance, can't self-isolate, and can't look after their own health care

Nobody was sentenced to die from #COVID19 and we have the means to SAVE LIVES
About a week ago, I did a back of the envelope calculation for the Federal Bureau of Prisons @POTUS

It seems like they have only vaccinated 12,223 out of 124,679 incarcerated people in federal prisons bop.gov/coronavirus/
In addition, from what I have been reading, some states (like Arizona) are refusing to even answer reporters questions about vaccinations.

You are the @POTUS for all American's President Biden, and that includes incarcerated people, I am begging you to be a leader here too 🙏

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15 Feb
You do understand there is a whole genre of American music *called JAZZ * where the saxophone is featured prominently, right?
Perhaps you have heard of Charlie "Bird" Parker?
Probably another 100 songs from 50's Rock & Roll that are considered cornerstone songs that feature the sax prominently
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15 Feb
Season Four of Decarceration Nation so far....

Episode 91 #COVID19 in prison featuring @WesternBruce and @ewang422

#cjreform #podcast decarcerationnation.com/91-bruce-weste…
Episode 92 Food in Prison featuring @MikaWeinstein and Leslie Soble of @ImpactJustice

#cjreform #podcast decarcerationnation.com/92-mika-weinst…
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14 Feb
138 Human Beings have died from #COVID19 in Michigan's prisons

* One of the highest prison death rates in the country
* Over 3X the death rate in the general population

#VaccinateNow #LetMIPeopleGO
For those who don't know, Michigan is vaccinating people in prison over 65 currently, about 4k have been vaccinated.

But according to the CDC, everyone in prison is at high-risk and should be prioritized
People in prison cannot self-isolate, cannot socially distance, and cannot look over their own health care needs....here is a very strong article making the moral and substantive case for vaccinations in New York

newyorker.com/news/our-local…
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13 Feb
Look back, I said - since the beginning - people should steer far clear of the Lincoln Project, that it was a grift and that it would most likely be used to elect moderate GOP in the future
Now, I did not predict this awfulness.....but, I knew they were not actually allies
But a lot of people got mad at me for saying they weren't actually allies.
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12 Feb
There were two recent protests by incarcerated people that we should be paying attention to

1. The people at St Louis City Justice Center protesting COVID protocols

2. The Moose Lake Hunger Strike around the "forever punishment" of Civil Commitment reason.com/2021/02/10/civ…
In case you are less familiar with the second, these are people who served their sentence and are being held - in many cases forever, beyond their actual sentence based on questionable scientific claims of dangerousness Image
Yes, I get that folks in this situation are unpopular.....

But, we are holding people for DECADES who already served their sentences based on the legal fiction that it is treatment and not punishment

Think about the implications of the government having this power
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7 Feb
Folks, when people who are incarcerated organize and demonstrate, it is almost always because conditions are so bad they have been left with no other option

I am not sure why the press always demonizes them, read history, most so-called "riots" are for legitimate greivances
Also, some timetake a gander at how impossible it is to get a court to recognize a cruel and unusual punishment case sometime....it is pretty much impossible.

Also, prisons are black boxes....a lot of bad things happen in the dark w/o accountability
If you haven't read, for instance, "Blood in the Water" by @hthompsn, you probably should...especially if your natural inclination was to assume it was unwarranted
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