I have a sister who's in prison and we have been writing letters to each other, and in her last letter she says that due to covid her unit has has been on lock down. She says she's having to work next to women with covid and they're only being allowed to bath 2-3 time s a week. She wants to try and get in touch with the news. Is there anything I can do beside giving her a local news places contact.
First, I’m sorry to hear about the situation , that’s truly awful
You might try and seek out local abolitionist organizations for guidance. You might have to look to your state’s largest/most likely to be radical metro (my city doesn’t have much going on, but it’s near a very principled abolitionist scene, from what I can gather. But that’s probably for historical reasons, and may not be universally applicable).
I kinda stumbled on their existence by noticing an adjacent county’s name in the 2021 Spirit of Mandela 70th anniversary of We Charge Genocide! signatories; it’s incredibly random but that’s how it happened for me.
There are larger orgs that focus on letting incarcerated people speak for themselves (I have Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, or Prison Radio in mind). I don’t have any experience with what either local or national orgs actually might be able to do, but they would be the ones most likely to have experience in this area, would be my guess
Yeah that's what I was afraid of. stories like my sister's being super common and nothing being done to address it. With being so close to the border, what was happening in those ICE camps were big stories but eventually we stopped hereing about it. Thank you comrade
That's awful. My only experience in the prison system is a night in jail and even that wasn't something I'd wish on anyone.
