Demand Medically Vulnerable People are Released From Federal Prison!

Three women have died from COVID-19 at Alderson Federal Prison this year already. That's 15 people total COVID-19 related deaths while trapped in federally funded cages in 2022 alone

Rebecca “Maria” Adams, Juanita Haynes, and Bree Eberbaugh had requested compassionate releases because of preexisting medical conditions that made them more vulnerable to death or complications from COVID-19. And although these medical conditions were exacerbated by poor medical treatment inside of prison, both Maria and Bree’s releases were denied. Juanita's was granted too late. She was released while intubated and died 4 days later in a hospital bed.

Because of untrustworthy reporting from the Bureau of Prisons, the only way for us to truly understand the extent of this crisis is through desperate and heartbreaking emails, similar to the graphic above, from women incarcerated in federal prisons.

All of these deaths were preventable. The Bureau of Prisons has the power and resources to grant compassionate releases AND to release medically vulnerable people to finish their sentences on home confinement. And yet, only about 5 percent of the people in federal prison have been granted release to home confinement since the beginning of the pandemic, and only 36 compassionate release requests were granted between March 2020 and June 2021.

No one deserves to live in a cage or die in chains. COVID-19 in prisons is a death sentence.

Join us to demand the Bureau of Prisons release all medically vulnerable people from federal prisons immediately.

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Dear [recipient position will go here] [recipient name will go here],

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We have been living through this pandemic for two years, and despite what many elected officials want us to believe, it's far from over. For those in prison, the burden and dangers of COVID-19 have no end in sight.

Not only is social distancing inside prisons next to impossible, but people who are incarcerated are also at greater risk of serious complications or death from the virus because of health issues caused and exacerbated by conditions and lack of access to healthcare and services inside prisons.

In fact, three women have died from COVID-19 at Alderson Federal Prison this year already. That's 15 people total COVID-19 related deaths while trapped in federally funded facilities in 2022 alone!
As of early March, the Bureau of Prisons has reported that there have been 287 COVID-19 related deaths in federal facilities since the beginning of the pandemic. And this number doesn’t even include deaths in privately managed prisons.

All of these deaths were preventable. The Bureau of Prisons has the power and resources to grant compassionate releases AND to release medically vulnerable people to finish their sentences on home confinement, a program that has proven successful.  And yet, only about 5 percent of the people in federal prison have been granted release to home confinement since the beginning of the pandemic, and only 36 compassionate release requests were granted between March 2020 and June 2021.

No one deserves to die in chains. COVID-19 in prisons is a death sentence. If we’re going to keep people safe during the pandemic, and make any sort of meaningful impact towards undoing the harm of years of racialized mass incarceration, we must release medically vulnerable people immediately.

We demand the Bureau of Prisons use the tools at your disposal to release medically vulnerable men and women from federal facilities immediately.

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