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Today we published 9 URGENT questions for @GovMikeDeWine & @DrAmyActon to address at today's presser. We'll post each individual question every 10 minutes between now and 2.
UP FIRST: When can we expect to hear from @DRCOhio Director Chamber-Smiths about #COVID19 in prisons?
UP FIRST: When can we expect to hear from @DRCOhio Director Chamber-Smiths about #COVID19 in prisons?
Question #2We are now up to 17 deaths and 3,816 positive cases in Ohio prisons. Have these startling numbers made you rethink whether releasing just .4% of the prison population is enough @GovMikeDeWine @DrAmyActon
Question #3Last week the @ocsea expressed grievances about staff conditions inside @DRCOhio facilities and requested assistance from the National Guard. We are eager to hear more from @GovMikeDeWine & @DrAmyActon on this issue.
Question #4We know members of the National Guard are being trained to help in at least two Ohio prison as the virus spreads, but what specific duties are they performing? Will more be deployed? If so, when and where?
@GovMikeDeWine @DrAmyActon
Question #5The @DRCOhio medical care system was NOT designed to handle an institutional crises of this magnitude. In some facilities, 80% of the population has tested positive for #COVID19. What steps are being taken to ensure quality care @GovMikeDeWine @DrAmyActon
Question #6A youth at Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correction tested positive for COVID19. He is being quarantined. He is being denied access to family members and loved ones. He and ALL YOUTH detained in @OhioDYS facilities deserve answers from @GovMikeDeWine @DrAmyActon.
Question #7We've said over and over again that #COVID19 spreads like wildfire in detention centers. Are @GovMikeDeWine and
@OhioDYS Director Gies going to allow another outbreak to occur, or are they going to #StartReleasingKids NOW?! #TreatKidsLikeKids
Question #8A new #COVID19 model created by @ACLU & others finds that nearly 100K more people across the US will die than currently predicted unless rapid actions occur to reduce jail populations across the US.
Can you talk about your plan for Ohio jails @GovMikeDeWine?!
FINAL QUESTION #9This week a federal judge ordered Elkton prison officials to identify & release several hundred medically vulnerable prisoners due to the spread of #COVID19. Why have @GovMikeDeWine & @DrAmyActon not taken the same approach to @DRCOhio state prisons?!
Q&A TIME! We've got 9 urgent questions for @GovMikeDeWine re #COVID19 in Ohio's prisons, jails, and youth detention centers. We need answers. https://www.acluohio.org/archives/press-releases/aclu-of-ohio-produces-list-of-priority-questions-for-governor-dewine-and-dr-amy-action-2?c=183341
