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Advocates, Families to Testify for Lifesaving Program to Release People From Prison Nearing End of Their Sentences to Prevent COVID-19 spread in NJ
For Immediate Release
Monday, July 20, 2020
Today, at an Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing beginning at 10 a.m. Senior Supervising Attorney Alexander Shalom of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, as well as allied social justice organizations, will testify and call for the swift passage of the Public Emergency Health Credits bill, which would shave time off of sentences of people nearing the end of their prison sentences.
New Jersey continues to have the worst COVID death rate in state prisons among every state in the country, and only a fraction of people eligible for release have been allowed to leave prisons, which have been recognized by experts as extremely susceptible to incubation of infectious diseases.
WHAT:
Hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on S2519/A4235, a bill to expedite release of people in prison nearing the end of their sentences, up to one year
WHEN:
10 a.m., Monday, July 20, 2020
WHO:
- Alexander Shalom, ACLU-NJ Senior Supervising Attorney and Director of Supreme Court Advocacy
- Rev. Dr. Charles Boyer, Founder of Salvation and Social Justice
- Families and loved ones of those who have contracted COVID-19 in prison
WHERE:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp
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