From Vera:
By prioritizing punishment as a public safety strategy, the United States has created dangerous prisons that harm the people who live and work in them. Eighty-five percent of corrections officers report having seen someone seriously injured or killed in the workplace, and conditions are worsening as prisons struggle to keep enough staff to operate safely.
“It is time for our country to pay attention to what happens behind the walls,” reads a joint statement from One Voice Uniting Corrections, an organization representing corrections officers, and Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), an organization representing the families of incarcerated people. "We are in the midst of a profound crisis in our nation’s correctional system. Prisons across the country are dangerously understaffed, overcrowded, and plagued by rapidly deteriorating conditions.”
As staffing in U.S. prisons reaches its lowest numbers in decades, incarcerated people are not receiving timely medical treatment and extended lockdowns are becoming the norm. In short-staffed prisons, people are confined to their cells for 23 hours a day, with no opportunities for growth, education, or even exercise. This is no way to prepare them for a healthy return home. Continue reading >>>
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