<div dir="ltr">Many of you already receive these updates from Wisdom. They are working hard on Criminal Justice Reform, and are advocating for the release of low-level-offense prisoners, with the threat of them losing their lives to COVID.<div class="gmail_quote">
<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><span style="display:none!important;font-size:1px;color:#ffffff;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">Almost HALF of all people in prison have tested positive for COVID-19,</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">Please join us for a <b>Candlelight Vigil </b><strong>to </strong><b>remember those who have died of COVID-19 in our state prisons</b>. </span></span><br>
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<li class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><b>Monday, December 21</b></span></span></li>
<li class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><b>6:00 - 6:30 pm</b></span></span></li>
<li class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><b>In front of the<u> </u>Governor's Mansion, 99 Cambridge Rd., Madison, WI</b></span></span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">We know there have been at least 19 people who have died. We believe there are probably more. The Department of Corrections only counts as COVID deaths those whose death is so determined by a medical examiner. If a person from prison is in the hospital for an extended period and dies there, the medical examiner is not necessarily called. The hospital simply reports a COVID death. <br>
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We know that, as of this week, almost HALF of all people in prison have tested positive for COVID-19</span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">, in contrast to less than 10% of the overall population. We have no way of knowing how many of them have become seriously ill, because that information is not reported to the public. At the same time, about 20% of Department of Corrections personnel have contracted the virus.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">Last week, the Governor finally acknowledged the crisis on a Zoom call. He said the prisons "are not exempt" from the virus - he did not mention that the rates in prison are five times higher than elsewhere.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">The Governor has not acted to offer clemency or to commute sentences to move very vulnerable people out of harm's way, or to release very low-risk people so that others might have a chance to socially distance. His staff has said that the Governor's legal team is looking into it. It has been eight months since WISDOM and other groups began to warn about the special danger of COVID for people in prison. It has been four months since the Governor said he would "look into" possibilities for clemency and commutation. So far, the conversation seems to have gone no further than his "legal team." It is really not a very difficult legal question. The Governor's powers to grant pardons and to reduce sentences are crystal clear. It is a political question, a matter of whether the Governor wants to use those powers or not.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">December 21 is the longest night of the year. Let us gather to pray for light and hope. It is not too late for the Governor to act. It is never the wrong time to pray and to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in prison. </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">Join us if you can. If you cannot, please take a moment at 6 pm Monday to remember those who have died, those who are sick, and those who have the power and the responsibility to care for the people in our prisons.</span></span></div>
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