Jill Stein
From:info@jillstein2024.com
To:Mark M Giese
Thu, Oct 3 at 2:43 PM
Mark M,
Wakulla County Florida was under an
emergency evacuation order.
Hurricane Helene was on the way, due to plow into the Florida
coastline and later grind its way up through Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina and Tennessee.
Residents in this low-lying, coastal county south of Tallahassee
heeded the warnings and got out. But some people got left behind on
purpose.
Prison
officials made the conscious decision to leave 3,000 incarcerated
citizens held in the Wakulla Correctional Institution, directly in the
path of this deadly storm.
Their families were so desperate for information, they resorted
to leaving comments on local news reports: |
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While Wakulla County wasn’t hit quite as
hard as some other areas, the question remains: If an
emergency evacuation order was put in place to preserve human life,
why weren’t incarcerated people part of that
evacuation?
We know
the answer, because we’ve seen this movie before. 19 years ago, as
Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, THOUSANDS of inmates were
left behind despite mandatory evacuations.
Pointedly, the sheriff there
said he was leaving the inmates “where they belong." |
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Some of those
prisoners were juveniles as young as 10 years old. Some were in jail
for minor offenses like public intoxication, waiting for a hearing
because they couldn’t afford bail.
Long after the waters receded from that
devastating storm, there is still no official death toll of the people
left behind in cages, trapped by rising floodwaters. We do know that
a subsequent Human Rights Watch report concluded nearly
600 incarcerated Americans were listed as “unaccounted
for.”
These are the
obvious outcomes of a criminal legal system designed to humiliate and
dehumanize people. It has nothing whatsoever to do with
public safety.
While
Donald Trump plots mass deportations and concentration camps for
immigrants and political enemies alike, and Kamala Harris boasts about
her work as California’s “Top Cop” – even keeping inmates incarcerated
for longer to protect their “prison labor pool – I am the only
candidate in this race with a path to the White House and a comprehensive,
transformational reform plan for prisons and
policing.
If
you believe, as I do, that our current incarceration system is as
inhumane as it is fundamentally unsustainable, please join me with a
donation to our campaign to bring our call for justice to the ballot
box. |
Our platform recognizes that public safety
and justice can only be achieved by preserving human dignity and
safeguarding human rights.
We will dismantle the prison industrial complex and end mass
incarceration as we know it. My administration will guarantee as a
human right a restorative criminal justice system that treats every
one of the over 2.3 million people in federal, state, and local
prisons and jails with respect, dignity and
compassion.
As long as
America maintains the current system, we will continue to see the
barbarity, the total disregard for human life, and the immeasurable
cruelty expand to impact more people.
It must end, and under my administration, it
will.
In solidarity and
gratitude,
Jill
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