Santa Rita Jail Hotline: Volunteer Questions | National Lawyers Guild

Since early this year, the coronavirus pandemic has infected thousands of people in the Bay Area and has profoundly changed life as we know it, both in and out of custody: from the ability to go out in public, to the right to a speedy trial.We also know that conditions inside Santa Rita Jail were at a crisis point long before coronavirus entered the jail in April. These conditions plus the increase in isolation have made life more difficult for everyone whether or not they are sick.

The National Lawyers Guild is offering a free hotline to anyone who would like to discuss the coronavirus or conditions inside Santa Rita Jail.

Please read more about the need for this hotline and answer a few questions about yourself. Thank you!

Your Contact Information

First Name

Last Name

Phone Number

We will follow up with you to ask you to provide 1-2 reference for our internal vetting process.

Do you have experience as a hotline worker and/or receiving calls from jail/prison?

Yes

Do you have time to do follow-up advocacy for hotline callers in addition to answering the hotline?

Sending advocacy letters, advocacy emails, sending mail to prisoners.

Yes

Do you feel comfortable speaking with, offering information to, and advocating for prisoners without conditions and without judgment regarding their conviction or pending criminal case?

Hotline workers should NOT discuss any confidential information about a pending criminal case, or any information that could incriminate a caller. However, hotline workers will be required to search for prisoner callers in the inmate locator.

Yes

I would like to discuss this question further

Are you an attorney, legal worker, or law student?

Yes

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Yes

Do you have experience as a hotline worker and/or receiving calls from jail/prison? Please describe the extent that you feel comfortable. If not, please describe any other prisoner solidarity work.

Please indicate which days and how many hrs per week you are available.

Optional: Please share thoughts or knowledge you have about Santa Rita Jail, what you think is valuable about a hotline, and why you think that prisoner solidarity is important.

To learn more about becoming a NLG-SF member, please visit https://nlgsf.org/join-the-guild/ or contact the office at 415-285-5067 or contact@nlgsf.org.