The implications of this are horrible, but we’re fighting back.
Jeffrey L Steward,
You may have seen the headlines this week that Alligator Alcatraz is very likely closing. Lawyers have confirmed that transfers are ramping up and the facility will be empty within days.
My first instinct when I heard that was relief.
That was the wrong instinct.
Closing the facility doesn’t free those men; it just moves them somewhere else. They’re not going home. We don’t know where they’re going.
More than once, I have stood outside that facility and sat with families of people held inside.
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My mind went next to a woman I met outside those gates.
She told me her husband had a heart condition and needed his medication — and they refused to let him have it.
Thirty people in a single cage, one roll of toilet paper. When her husband reported being served expired food, they retaliated by moving him to a private cage in the extreme cold. She told me he went from talking normally to not being able to think straight within three days. Their baby was turning one year old. She just wanted him there for it.
Mario Vara Gonzalez was held there for 157 days and lost 55 pounds.
On June 12th, we are traveling to Memphis to train candidates who are willing to run against this — fiercely — on what’s actually happening to people. We’re doing it at the center where Dr. King was headed the night he was killed. That matters to us.
Will you make a one-time or recurring gift today to keep us at those gates — and on the road?
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We run on faith, hope, love — and diesel.
In this together,
Doug
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+(3).gif "A GIF of Doug standing outside of Alligator Alcatraz.")