Dear Chicago

A campaign started by a group of Black women law students to spread awareness about how COVID-19 is impacting incarcerated folks in Illinois. #FreeThemAll

[Dear Chicago @_dearchicago_]

What is ‘Dear Chicago’?

Well, here’s a little bit about us & what we’re aiming to do! #FreeThemAll #StopCOVID19inPrisons

[bettina @lesypersound]

Remember in the spring when various networks were activated bc things seemed/were so dire for ppl inside due to COVID. Well things are worse-we’re just more used to it.

Here’s my list of ph#s to call this wk:
SA Foxx (312-603-1880)
Judge Evans (312-603-6000)
IDOC (217-558-2200)

[RailroadedUnderground @RailroadUnderg1]

My friend is dead. Just got the news today. I am crushed beyond words. He died in this prison because of #COVID19. He had a family. He helped others get out of prison. He was an incredible human being. Now he is dead because our politicians wouldnt act. This is murder.

[Dear Chicago @_dearchicago_]

Here’s a quick podcast with a breakdown of COVID-19 in Illinois prisons, and the lack of testing available for incarcerated folks. (starting at the 5:00 mark, dated July 7th)

https://t.co/p9SLgxDFG0

[Heather Schoenfeld @HeatherS_25]

My attempt to draw national attention to crisis in US prisons. Thnx to ⁦@MiamiHerald⁩ ⁦@jkbjournalist⁩ ⁦@MarshallProj⁩ ⁦@propublica⁩ for cited research. #PrisonState People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19 https://t.co/k3DaReszQl

[Antoinette @Lady_SpadeQ]

Cook County Jail punishes poverty. Many in CCJ are there solely because they cannot afford bond. #DefundCCJ

[Adnan Khan @akhan1437]

The reason we have a #covid prison problem is because we have a mass incarceration problem.

We have to urgently & drastically reduce the prison/jail population—not these tiny, politically driven releases.

There’s no way we have 2.3 million people locked up who are irredeemable.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Over the last few months I’ve been listening to terrified calls from jails & prisons across the country. Reading sworn declarations. Speaking to family members. Jails aren’t reporting what’s happening. Not just the numbers. The violent indifference to human suffering.

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

For anyone interested, here's the breakdown of how each state got its respective grade: https://t.co/RXFJnMgNCM

[Books & Bud @iLiveinAsia_]

Your friendly reminder that COVID-19 continues to take the lives of people who are incarcerated. Social distancing is not possible in prisons. We need to continue fighting for their release

[BLMChicago @BLMChi]

“We matter” written on windows of Cook County Jail. #FathersDay #DefundThePolice #DefundCCJ #DefundTheCarceralState

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

Father's Day is a good day to remind people that all phone calls and video calls for incarcerated people should be free in every prison and jail across the country. Not just during a pandemic, not just during holidays, not as a special privilege. But for everyone, all year round.

[Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare]

Hundreds honking and waving signs at a car caravan circling Cook County Jail, responsible for 15.7 percent of all known covid cases in Illinois, demanding we #DefundCCJ

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Amid growing calls from activists, a group of aldermen announced they would introduce a plan to end the agreement that allows Chicago police officers to work inside Chicago public schools. https://t.co/F84zKMPP1x

[BLMChicago @BLMChi]

To our family locked in Cook County Jail and detained throughout the state, we want you to know that , “We love you, we, we love you!” #DefundTheCarceralSystem #FreeThemAll

[Dear Chicago @_dearchicago_]

Abolish cops. Abolish prisons. Free them ALL.

[Chicago Community Bond Fund @ChiBondFund]

New research has found that nearly one in six cases of COVID-19 in Chicago and Illinois can be connected to people moving through the Cook County Jail.
https://t.co/1BqamAvzdO

[Kira Lerner @kira_lerner]

Chicago’s jail has one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the nation, but that didn’t stop the city from holding people in the jail for multiple days because of a shortage of ankle monitors https://t.co/IoZWHl1Pop

[Chicago Community Bond Fund @ChiBondFund]

We encourage you to donate to our partners in the
@BailFundNetwork who are prepared to pay bail for people arrested at these demonstrations.

@MNFreedomFund: https://t.co/lfSuT4MKwJ

Louisville Community Bail Fund: https://t.co/f5SVzQ7y73

[Down with US Empire... Yankee Go Home @jaybeware]

Judges and Governors are presiding over a genocide in prisons. Openly. They do not care. Every cop who makes an arrest, every DA who files a charge, and every CO who doesn't open the gates is complicit.