In this open letter, Andrea James, founder of Roxbury-based Families for Justice as Healing, implores Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to take several actions in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis including releasing people from prison, declining to prosecute certain cases, and to stop requesting bail.
read the letterWe are counting on you to focus on decarceration to save people’s lives, not petitioning to return a
sick man to jail who has not been convicted or sentenced…[I]ncarceration doesn’t keep people or the community safe, especially not during a pandemic.