From IGD
Pittsburgh’s Bukit Bail Fund is calling for a phone zap marathon in solidarity with prisoners in Allegheny County Jail, who are at at high risk of infection with coronavirus. Targets for the first three days are included below, with more to come soon. Give them no peace until our friends are safe!
More than 1,600 people are currently held in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in crowded, unsanitary conditions. Hundreds of staff enter and leave the facility each day. As of April 9th, more than 80% of those at ACJ are unconvicted; instead, 43% are held on alleged violations of probation, many of them technical violations or based on non-violent charges; 22% of them are held pretrial only, with their presumption of innocence intact; countless numbers are held simply because they cannot afford cash bail. Only 113 people in ACJ are serving a sentence, and nearly all of those sentences are for minor charges.
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