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Please send an email to human rights officers and prison monitors at the United Nations and to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, as well as to authorities from the United States, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Colombia, calling for an end to the spread of the U.S. mass incarceration model during a time of pandemic, and demanding the release of elderly prisoners and those arrested for nonviolent crimes. This effort is part of the ongoing campaign in support of the demands of the Open Letter on Mass Incarceration, Prison Imperialism, and Coronavirus. The Open Letter is an international effort endorsed by many organizations from North America, Latin America, and Europe, and has been signed by more than 550 individuals, including human rights defender and former political prisoner Angela Davis, Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, historian Gerald Horne, Global Womens Strike founder Selma James, human rights defender and former Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba, Alfred de Zayas, first UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, among others. In addition to email campaigns such as this, we will be sending hard copies through the mail of the open letter to all the offices receiving these emails, and we will subsequently send hard copies of the letter to all the international prison systems involved in Prison Imperialism.