Covid Clemency Campaign: Old Law Prisoners
On Tuesday, May 5, Forum for Understanding Prisons (FFUP) will present our second COVID Clemency Campaign online press conference.
By the fifth, FFUP will have helped 60-100 incarcerated people file requests for Governor Evers to waive his restrictive clemency criteria in the face of the pandemic. The waiver requests and short summaries about the first batch can be found on FFUP’s Second Chance Wisconsin blog: http://secondchancewi.blogspot.com/2020/04/covid-compassion-campaign-i.html
We are requesting these waivers because Governor Evers’ Pardon Advisory Board excludes everyone who is currently incarcerated or doing community supervision from consideration.
“The Governor’s clemency criteria are inhumane in the face of covid-19” says Ben Turk, a member of FFUP.
To support the clemency requests, FFUP will be holding a series of biweekly online video press conferences with incarcerated people, their family members or other supporters. The first of these conferences can be watched online at https://youtu.be/6yqFUShaLmk
The next conference will be on May 5, and will focus on people sentenced under the old law who are long overdue for release, but are instead overcrowding prisons and increasing risk of infection for everyone in Wisconsin. The conference will be 90 minutes long, and FFUP will capture and distribute video from it.
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