Let's talk about how we've been making the same basic demands for our people for 8 months now, yet the governor has allowed COVID-19 to run through our prisons & jails. #FreeThemNowCT https://twitter.com/katalcenter/status/1329109745710497792

Since March we've been asking @GovNedLamont to release some incarcerated people and ensure they have a safe dignified place to land because social distancing is impossible in prison. #FreeThemNowCT

At @CCFJHartford & the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance (over 38 congregations) we saw four groups as an easy place for @GovNedLamont to release immediately:

youth, people incarcerated on technical parole violations, pre-trial detainees, & those near the end of their sentence anyway. Again this was as early as March.

@katalcenter organized a virtual press conference where even the chair of the CT state judiciary committee, @10SDDem, championed the call for decarceration.

Since then over 2,200 incarcerated people and staff have contracted the coronavirus in Connecticut. There are fewer than 10,000 people incarcerated in our small state.

What's more, @CTCorrections had to be sued into agreeing to basic safety measures by @acluct, and they're not even complying. #FreeThemNowCT https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/ACLU-CT-prisons-not-complying-with-terms-of-15684871.php