The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights publicized the following tools to challenge transfers and immigration actions.
The #StopSanQuentinOutbreak coalition continues calling for large-scale releases to urgently decarcerate prisons as the only public health solution to COVID-19 outbreaks across California.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is investigating potential challenges to the transfer of individuals from CDCR to ICE custody, including people for whom there are ICE holds or detainers. If you might be transferred to ICE custody, have an ICE detainer or hold and need assistance, please reach out to them to set up a confidential call:
Maricela Sánchez
ACLU of Northern California
PO Box 189070
Sacramento, CA 95818
559-348-7541
Immigration attorneys at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and Asian Law Caucus (ALC) are also available to provide legal advice on your options to fight deportation. To request an intake form for you to fill out and return to them that will help them assess your options, please send a letter to:
Immigrant Rights Program
Asian Law Caucus
55 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94111
In February 2021, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its third report in a COVID-19 Review Series.
The report outlines how the California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) and CDCR caused a public health disaster at SQ when they transferred medically vulnerable prisoners from the California Institute for Men without taking proper safeguards.
One of the most haunting findings established by this report is that CDCR and CCHCS deliberately pushed forward the transfer, fully aware of the deadly risks and despite multiple objections and warnings from their own medical staff.
The report notes that a CCHCS executive stated:
“The benefit of a more rapid move in this specific situation appears to outweigh the risks.”
The #StopSanQuentinOutbreak coalition continues calling for large-scale releases to urgently decarcerate prisons as the only public health solution to COVID-19 outbreaks across California.
