[Lekooks] Fwd: Bringing Light to Darkness

Fri Dec 18 16:39:24 CST 2020

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.
Almost HALF of all people in prison have tested positive for COVID-19,
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Please join us for a *Candlelight Vigil **to **remember those who have died
of COVID-19 in our state prisons*.

   - *Monday, December 21*
   - *6:00 - 6:30 pm*
   - *In front of the Governor's Mansion, 99 Cambridge Rd., Madison, WI*

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.

We know that, as of this week, almost HALF of all people in prison have
tested positive for COVID-19, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

*Linking communities across Wisconsin to work for justice*
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