PIH calls for release of incarcerated people, reduction in arrests
Posted on Jan 26, 2021
Incarcerated people inside Cook County Jail post messages in the window and signal to protestors outside in April 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Across the United States, COVID-19 is running rampant in prisons, jails, and detention centers, putting millions of incarcerated people, families, and communities at risk.
The COVID-19 crisis in America’s prisons disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities due to decades of mass incarceration—a systemic injustice that is directly linked to the genocide, slavery, and structural racism that has marked the U.S. for centuries.