Take action TODAY to demand the release of incarcerated women & other people held in women’s prisons, noting the cisgender norms enforced by the prison system that misgenders incarcerated non binary and trans people #release2savelives #carenotcages https://cape-campaign.org/monday-27th-april-day-of-action-release2savelives-carenotcages/

Covid-19 is rapidly spreading through prisons and detention centres, exacerbated by insufficient hygiene and social distancing measures - this is a public health emergency impacting a vulnerable and marginalized population #release2savelives #carenotcages

During this public health crisis, we need more than ever to provide humane solutions over criminalisation. We cannot continue to condemn people to death by holding them in prisons and detention centres.

Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre has known cases of Covid-19, but the people detained there are not able to socially distance. Check out @detainedvoices for more info

People are being locked in for 23.5 hours a day. This constitutes solitary confinement, as defined by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. This inhumane treatment is having a grave impact on those with pre-existing mental health problems.

Prison abolition is, and always has been, a feminist struggle.

To stop the spread of Covid-19, we must release all imprisoned people so that they can socially distance. Plans for the early release of some incarcerated people are insufficient to stop the spread of Covid-19 in the prison estate, and even this promise has already been broken.

At least 15 incarcerated people have already been killed by Covid-19 in prisons across England & Wales, including one woman. Due to lack of testing, official stats erase the dire reality in prisons right now as hundreds more than what official figures state have been impacted

Take action NOW to demand @RobertBuckland takes URGENT ACTION