To whom it may concern:

We come before you now asking for consideration and relief to the following petition:

 As you are already aware, the COVID-Pandemic has affected our beloved country in ways no one could have ever imagined. The COVID-Pandemic continues to ravage our country in ways experts could not have predicted, with no end in sight.

 As a result of this pandemic, we are all left to survive the best way we can and to create a " new normal."

 Those of us incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institute Aliceville, in Aliceville, Alabama, have been kept in conditions that would be considered inhumane, and this has been going on for 18 months.

We do acknowledge that the Federal Bureau of Prisons is doing its best to keep us all safe, but the reality is that there has been no precedent for such a situation we find ourselves in now. As a result of the conditions, inmates have suffered physically, emotionally, and psychologically. No American citizen should endure what we continue to do every day. This lockdown has left us feeling hopeless and helpless.

 Inmates at FCI Aliceville and many other federal facilities are left in these deplorable conditions because the Federal Bureau of Prisons cannot contain and therefore cannot control the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus between inmates and staff alike. Inmates at FCI Aliceville have spent 18 months counting on "modified" operations, which leaves us locked in our cells up to 23 hours a day. Inmates such as myself have spent a total of 14 (out of the 18) months and counting in 23-hour lockdown. Since March 2020, the most time we have been let out at once was 5 hours. For the last six weeks, most inmates have been locked in their cells 22 hours a day due to active COVID-19 cases in the housing unit. Once again, proving that the best efforts to keep inmates safe have still failed. 

 As if that is not difficult enough, inmates have had no access or minimal access to basic institutional services such as indoor/outdoor recreation, SENTRY approved programming, legal law library, educational services, medical and religious services. Our "sick-call" or emergent medical and dental services are non-existent. We are made to drop medical and dental request forms in the mailbox, and it takes 6-8 weeks for any response from appropriate medical staff.

 Inmates who are fully vaccinated are still contracting COVID-19. Most importantly, there is no end in sight, and no human beings should be left in these conditions. If it's against the law for animals, then it should be for humans. It's evident that after 18 months, the Federal Bureau of Prisons' best efforts does not have the capability to guarantee the safety and well-being of inmates. They have only one solution, " Sentence Modifications."

*50% sentence deductions for all federal inmates

*Inmates that have reached their 50% sentencing mark will be immediately released on supervised release

*Inmates that are to be deported will be immediately deported

*All fines, restitution, and any other profitable means currently scheduled to be paid to the U.S government will remain.

In conclusion, we are asking the government to make a swift and timely effort to release us on supervised conditions and relieve us from these conditions. We are mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives who deserve to be treated with respect as human beings.

We humbly thank you for your consideration in this urgent and critical crisis.

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PLEASE SUPPORT THIS PETITION AS WE ARE LIVING, BREATHING HUMAN BEINGS

THIS IS FROM AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL SPEAKING BOLDLY AND JEOPARDIZING THEIR LIFE BY SPEAKING OUT. PLEASE SIGN AND HELP US GET 50K SIGNATURES TO FIGHT THIS CONTINUOUS AND UNLAWFUL BEHAVIOR.

THANK YOU