Worthy Now Prison Ministry Network

09/14/2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom passed a bill that will give prisoners battling California's massive wildfires a chance to become firefighters after their release.

07/15/2020

Here is an EXCELLENT article on Prison Abolition and its relationship to ending policing in America as we know it!

The movement that is trying to think beyond prisons as a tool to solve society’s problems.

06/06/2020

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06/02/2020

Dear Fellow Prison Abolitionists,
This week has been a week of overwhelming grief, anger and holy pain. The grief, anger and pain are new to some but part of an embodied, generational way of existing in the world for countless others. All of this on top of a global viral pandemic.

Our incarcerated siblings find themselves in facilities that are wrought with the viruses of Corona and Racism. They are there because of a corrupt system; the same system being raged against in our streets.

We know we are all in some ways hurting and we also know that all of us reading this message have committed ourselves to the work of prison abolition. We encourage all of us to think about the relationships we have cultivated over the past many years of being a part of the Worthy Now Prison Ministry.

It is important to remember that the legacy of slavery resulted in the Prison Industrial Complex (see the documentary 13th for more information). Our work inside this system has equipped us with the language, the passion and the lived commitment to ensure that everyone around us in our circles of influence hears the important message that Black Lives Matter.

Many of you do not feel safe entering the public spaces of protest due to health issues and the Coronavirus pandemic. We are attaching a wonderful resource from The Movement for Black Lives that outlines so many opportunities to get engaged including and beyond active protest. We encourage all of us to do something. https://m4bl.org/week-of-action/

We are asking, no, we are begging us all to lean into the work of manifesting the Beloved Community and answer this call for radical and real change to our racists systems.

Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!

In Grief, Anger and Holy Pain,
Rev. Dr. Rodney Lemery, Rev. Margalie Belizaire, Beth Murray, & Rose Gallogly

05/14/2020

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/05/14/jails-vs-prison-update/

Our updated analysis finds that jails are responding to the unprecedented public health crisis by rapidly dropping their populations. In contrast, state prisons have barely ...

05/13/2020

Per our friends at the ACLU: Andrea Circle Bear was the first federally incarcerated woman to die from COVID-19. She was serving a 2-year sentence and died 28 days after giving birth. Her tragic death could've been avoided. The Emergency Community Supervision Act requires the release of those most vulnerable to the deadly virus -- including pregnant individuals like Andrea. We must urge Congress to support this bill in the next relief package before more lives are lost -- in prisons and in our broader community. Send a message to your representative today: aclu.org/covdecar

04/14/2020

Outrageous!

A shelter in Chicago reported at least 37 cases of coronavirus among children in government custody, and it expects that number to rise.