Prison Justice Network updates Spring 2020

Click here to read – inside: resources, calls to action, news, and inspiration in these covid19 times by, for, & with prisoners/detainees!
Table Of Contents
calls to action
number for people in Alouette to call, 1
info@spartacusbooks.net
Solidarity and Resource Exchange on the Coast Salish Lands, 1
https://coda.io/@awsamuel/vancouver-mutual-aid
Downtown Eastside and COVID-19, 1
https://fb.me/DTESCOVID
WISH Drop In Centre, 1
https://twitter.com/WISHvancouver
STAND for Prison Justice: Students Taking A New Direction For Prison Justice, 1
https://fb.me/PrisonJusticeUBC
Criminalizing the Marginalized can Worsen the Crisis, 2
https://halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/we-face-a-public-health-emergency-and-criminalizing-the-marginalized-can-worsen-the-crisis
Demand PM, MP, MLA de-carcerate
https://cp-ep.org/nooneisdisposable
Land defenders continue, 3
https://twitter.com/Gidimten
Demand CBSA release detainees, 3
https://solidarityacrossborders.org/en/release-remaining-detainees
Stop the spread of racism, 3
https://stopthespread.ca
Ask PM to add aid for vulnerable, 4
https://www.cjpme.org/dont_forget
Denounce Colombian massacre, 4
https://afgj.salsalabs.org/nomoremassacresnomorecoronavirusincolombianprisons
Urge Turkey to release prisoners, 4
https://amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/turkey-covid-19-prisoners-release
Release Palestinian child detainees, 4
https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/petition_israel_must_release_all_palestinian_child_detainees_amid_covid_19_pandemic
Sign letter on prison imperialism, 4
https://afgj.salsalabs.org/endorseopenletteroncoronavirusandusprisonimperialism
inspiration
Phone line for prisoners in Barton, 5
https://facebook.com/bartonsolidarityproject
news
Map of covid19 behind bars, 5
https://covid19behindbars.com
Lockdown at FVI, 5 & Mission, 19
https://globalnews.ca/news/6779699/coronavirus-mission-institution-cases
BC assessing early release, 6
https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-tensions-rising-in-crowded-b-c-jails
Okanagan prisoner has covid19, 6
https://castanet.net/news/Penticton/296249/Okanagan-Correctional-Centre-inmates-claim-COVID-19-case
Kent in virtual lockdown, 7
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-dark-side-of-canadas-coronavirus-response
UBCIC demands release, 7
https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_ubcic_demands_immediate_release_of_all_non_violent_offenders_as_part_of_covid_19
news (continued)
Bowden lockdown, 8
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/03/20/covid-19-enters-the-canadian-prison-system
Prince Albert IWC organizing, 8
https://vice.com/en_ca/article/jge4yy/canadas-prisons-are-a-coronavirus-time-bomb-say-guards-and-inmates
Burnside prisoner interview, 8
https://halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/el-jones-interviews-a-prisoner-at-burnside-about-what-its-like-to-be-in-jail-during-a-pandemic
CSC considering early release, 9
https://cbc.ca/amp/1.5516664
Calls for urgent decarceration, 9
https://aptnnews.ca/2020/03/23/covid-19-pandemic-plan-needed-for-canadas-jails-and-prisons
Contain covid, not people video, 10
https://facebook.com/CSSDPRyerson/videos/691115248363665
From Burnside to Laval, 10
https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/from-burnside-to-laval-solidarity
https://nsadvocate.org/2020/03/28/press-release-coast-to-coast-support-for-migrant-detainees-on-hunger-strike-in-quebec-due-to-risks-of-covid-19-hungerstrikelaval
https://liguedesdroits.ca
Former detainee on Laval strike, 11
https://freecityradio.org/post/614149302725541888/mohammed-barry-on-lavalhungerstrike-during
Canada shuts out refugees, 12
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/03/23/Shutting-Out-Refugees-Wrong-Wont-Make-Us-Safer
Can’t police way out of pandemic, 12
https://nowtoronto.com/news/coronavirus-we-cant-police-our-way-out-of-pandemic
Detainees’ hunger strike in WA, 13-14
http://laresistencianw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Hunger-Strike-Press-Release.pdf
resistenciasolidarity@gmail.com
5 demands for federal prisons, 15
https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/covid-19-5-demands-for-federal-prisons
Prison strikes, 15
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZV_AkDIPHW7iYqQouIdfpEZsZ9w9zD_lr3Q6YB9LkT8
US federal prisons lockdown, 16
https://democracynow.org/2020/4/2/cruel_and_unusual_punishment_the_us
Nigeria groups demand release, 16
https://roape.net/2020/03/26/out-of-control-crisis-covid-19-and-capitalism-in-africa
Iran release prompts analysis, 16
https://jadaliyya.com/Details/40865
Contain covid19, not people, 17-18