SIP - Supporting Incarcerated People

02/25/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xho4edXgGDo&feature=youtu.be

Pastor Prentiss Robbins was the full time organizer for the Racine Interfaith Coalition (RIC). Now he is waiting for a lung transplant after surviving COVID...

02/25/2021

Join us for Wisconsin’s Day of Empathy (organized by Clean Slate Milwaukee, EXPO - EX-incarcerated People Organizing, and The Community). DOE is a national effort by Dreamcorps Justice to create a national day of action around creating a justice system worthy of that name. March 2, Tuesday, 12-1:30 PM central. Watch the short video below for more info and register at
http://thedreamcorps.org/WI-DOE. See you there.
https://youtu.be/cjMcdCgMG2c

Join us March 2, 12-1:30 central for Wisconsin's Day of Empathy, brought to you by Dreamcorps Justice, Clean Slate, The Community, and EXPO. Various leaders ...

02/24/2021

https://myvote.wi.gov/en-US/MyElectedOfficials

01/26/2021

WISDOM & EXPO are asking your assistance; please contact your state legislator's today and ask them to NOT support the amendment to AB5 (WI Vaccination Plan).

IF this amendment passes it would bar most incarcerated people from being vaccinated before the general public for COVID 19. Allowing this amendment ignores that WI currently has 25 deaths from COVID 19 & over half of the prison population have contracted this disease. Prisons should be included in the vaccination plan as nursing homes, hospitals and other closed quarter facilities are, this should not be a moral argument. No one in the Wisconsin prison system has been sentence to death & our Governor & legislators should assure they don't.

These inidividuals are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, husbands & wives, etc. They should not be defined or denied by the worst thing they have ever done. Our faith teaches us they are not less worthy nor are our lives less worthy of being saved.

Here is the language of the amendment:
ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1,
TO ASSEMBLY BILL 5
At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
1. Page 4, line 3: after that line insert:
“(7m) INCARCERATED PERSONS. The department of health services in implementing a vaccination plan may not distribute the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus vaccine to incarcerated persons under 60 years of age sooner than 21 days after the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is available to the general public.”

If you need to find your legislators, you can find them here:
https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/MyElectedOfficials

SCRIPT (for email or phone):
My name is __________________________, I am with ____________ an affiliate of WISDOM & I am your constituent. I am calling to voice my opposition to the Amendment to AB5. My faith teaches me that every human life has the same value and I am disaapointed that legislators wish to withhold vaccines from incarcerated people throughout our state. Currently over half of the WI prison system has contracted COVID 19, that is more than 10,000 people. 25 people have lost their lives to COVID. No one in WI is sentenced to death please vote to give WI's incarcerated people a fighting chance.

Can I count on (legislators name) vote to oppose this barbaric amendment?

My Vote

01/20/2021

https://www.facebook.com/100007044756360/videos/2942054466039350/

01/20/2021

Tonight at 5:30 p.m. EXPO joined President Elect Joe Biden & the nation in remembering those who have left us too early due to COVID 19, we lit candles outside of 8 of the 12 prisons where people have died due to COVID 19.

Please join us in remembering our fallen Incarcerated Brothers & Sister's they will never make it home to their families & we share that sorrow:
Dodge 2
Fox Lake 2
Green Bay 1
Kettle Morraine 1
Oakhill 1
Oshkosh 4
Prairie Du Chien 1
Racine 2
Redgranite 2
Stanley 3
Taycheedah 1
Waupun 4
**Please note these are the deaths as reported by DOC, we believe these numbers are not accurate.

01/12/2021

The Assembly Health Committee is having a hearing Thursday on COVID vaccine distribution. PLEASE email committee members (especially if they are YOUR representative) urging a discussion of making incarcerated folks and corrections staff a priority.

More than 10,000 inmates and 2,000 staff members have tested positive. Both parties have been a total failure on this. PLEASE call today. If you need help finding YOUR representative or need contact information, PLEASE inbox us or email [email protected]
Thank you!

Representative Sanfelippo (Chair)
Representative Summerfield (Vice-Chair)
Representative Wichgers
Representative VanderMeer
Representative Skowronski
Representative Murphy
Representative Magnafici
Representative Dittrich
Representative Rozar
Representative Moses
Representative Cabral-Guevara
Representative Subeck
Representative Anderson
Representative Riemer
Representative S. Rodriguez
Representative Vining