Jonathan Elwell
'Public safety' is not community safety
The governor's Public Safety Enhancement Team is part of a nationwide backlash to 2020 movements to defund and abolish the police. Its process is at odds with Brattleboro's Community Safety Review (CSR) Committee recommendations.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the reform of the criminal legal system through monitoring and changing Vermont laws that promote mass incarceration and excessive punishment."...
The state is killing people in prison
The deprivation, neglect, and violence that characterize Vermont’s prisons is causing premature deaths of inmates at an alarming rate
On the morning of April 17, David Mitchell, a 46-year-old man from Rutland, complained to prison guards that he couldn't breathe and needed urgent medical treatment. According to multiple accounts from other people incarcerated in the same block at Southern State Correctional Facility, the guard told Mitchell to stop...