After donating 130,000 surgical masks to prisons and jails throughout the country through their nonprofit REFORM Alliance, they are now expanding the initiative to equip all correctional facilities in the United States with masks, the organization reported.
The effort is a collaboration between REFORM Alliance —a nonprofit the two founded along with other criminal justice advocates to address injustices surrounding probation, parole and the system at large—and Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative.
As part of the initiative, the REFORM Alliance will cultivate a public log so individuals can see the number of masks that have been donated to each state and the state representative responsible for distributing the masks to prisons for accountability purposes.
“This generous donation from Jack and #startsmall is an absolute game-changer,” said REFORM Alliance CEO Van Jones in a statement.
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