REACH Coalition

Reciprocal Education And Community Healing. Insiders/Outsiders. TN Death Row.

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

Incarcerated people are one group for whom we need to pay close attention to #COVID19Vaccine access and keep states and departments of corrections accountable.

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

Biden says everyone will be eligible for a vaccine by April 19th. That means everyone. #COVID19Vaccination in US prisons and jails is necessary.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Fewer than 20% of people incarcerated in federal and state prisons have been vaccinated against COVID-19: https://t.co/tdEBBl3Sth

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

@GovBillLee please live by your words: pardon and commute sentences in Tennessee. Permanently stop the executions stalled by COVID-19. #CriminalJusticeReform

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

How to address #COVID19 in prisons and jails? Vaccination + Decarceration. Not lockdown.

[Shannon Fyfe @sefyfe]

Today marks ONE YEAR since the medical lockdown began at the DC Jail. An entire year. https://t.co/BlNYOgPWdb

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

OH opening up #COVID19Vaccination to all - but not specifically to incarcerated folks. TN has incarcerated folks in Phase 3 - starting in April. Despite prisons and jails being high risk settings for #COVID19 for the last year+

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

There is no place for the capital punishment in #Tennessee either. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[ACLU @ACLU]

BREAKING: Virginia's Governor just signed a bill to repeal the death penalty.

This is now the 23rd state to do so.

The rest of the country should not wait any longer.

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

Vaccination prioritization is about risk of acquiring COVID or having serious complications from COVID. The conditions of incarceration increase risk of both.

[Liliana Segura @LilianaSegura]

As Nashville vastly expands Covid vaccinations today, don't miss this critical reporting about Tennessee's treatment of incarcerated people. https://t.co/6XUDxyNt3O

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

Did Tennessee Execute an Innocent Man? https://t.co/w2KOO9X0XP @emilybazelon reports on an important story for the TN criminal justice system #abolishthedeathpenalty

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

As described in the case of Ohio, #COVID19 vaccination criteria "don’t deal in virtues and vices." They are "based on risk." Like OH, TN needs to prioritize vaccinating incarcerated individuals based on risk. https://t.co/DD9cH6HLrn

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

At minimum, incarcerated people should be offered the vaccine when the state gets to their age bracket (70+ currently, 65+ as of March per state guidelines) and not wait for later phases when all incarcerated people are vaccine eligible.

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

The approved #COVID19 are not yet proven to reduce one's ability to transmit the virus. To protect those living in congregate settings, including in TN prisons and jails, incarcerated people must be vaccinated.

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

The approved #COVID19 are not yet proven to reduce one's ability to transmit the virus. To protect those living in congregate settings, including in TN prisons and jails, incarcerated people must be vaccinated.

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

respectfully dissent and then #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

And Sotomayor concludes: "Those whom the Government executed during this endeavor deserved more from this Court. I respectfully dissent."

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - MLK #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

Abolish the death penalty. @JoeBiden

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

Say no, and then work to #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

I am calling on all Justice Department lawyers and Bureau of Prisons employees — You do not have to participate in or help facilitate the unjust federal executions scheduled this week. JUST SAY NO!

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

#SaveLisa and then #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

#AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

The U.S. has executed:
-a man who believed he was "Prince of God"
-man who'd lost 20% of his lobe in an accident
- delusional man who lived on pinecones & raw meat

Lisa Montgomery's planned execution next wk is not an aberration - it's part of a pattern.
https://t.co/IVv9vr3Zbt

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

Execution only continues cycles of violence and trauma. #SaveLisa and #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[Shannon Fyfe @sefyfe]

https://t.co/faJs0mjRk7

[REACH Coalition @CoalitionReach]

"understanding our own humanity is a lifelong project, one that just about all of us have the potential to invest in" - Jennifer Lackey on reasons to #AbolishTheDeathPenalty @NUPrisonEd

[Alex Guerrero @Alex_A_Guerrero]

An excellent op-ed by Jennifer Lackey. There are so many reasons to be against the death penalty; she articulates one of the deepest, most basic reasons here.

https://t.co/7jFNbch9Ly