URGENT: COVID-19 Surges Through San Quentin

URGENT: As a result of gross mismanagement, the coronavirus is now surging through San Quentin State Prison where 891 prisoners (over 20% of the population) and 89 staff have tested positive, according to the CDCR tracker. The facility had gone without any cases until 121 inmates were transferred from the California Institute for Men in Chino, CA, on May 30. The prisoners from CIM, which then had the largest outbreak among CA state prisons, had not been tested for weeks prior to the move.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW:

SIGN THE PETITION to the Governor to release people ASAP here.

SIGN UP for SQ actions and info updates with local organizers in Marin County here. 

Contact state authorities here to stop the next planned inmate transfers from SQ to Kern County!
(Though this is apparently temporarily delayed, please write to express your concern about the transfers.)

Read the Memo from Amend at UCSF (University of California—San Francisco) here 

DONATE to COVID RELIEF to those incarcerated at San Quentin through 2 nonprofits: the Prison University Project here or Re:Store Justice here