Residents demand Newsom grant mass releases as COVID-19 deaths surge in California prisons
January 28, 2021
Protesters all over the country began demanding major prisoner releases – mass decarceration – since last April, when this protest was held outside Northern Correctional in Somers, Conn. Not a single governor has complied. Prisoner supporters must “remember in November”! – Photo: Cloe Poisson, CTMirror
Community members plan to rally and car caravan urging prisoner releases, starting with elderly, immunocompromised and trans prisoners
by Courtney Morris, No Justice Under Capitalism; Mohamed Shehk, Critical Resistance; and Barni Qaasim, CURYJ
Oakland – On Sunday, Jan. 31, Californians will hold a car protest across the Bay Area to demand that Gov. Newsom grant mass releases for the state’s prison population. Formerly incarcerated leaders, families and friends with incarcerated loved ones will gather with other activists at 11:00 a.m. at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in the Port of Oakland to call on Gov. Newsom to urgently address the ongoing crisis of COVID in prisons.