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Release Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis We Are Writing June 23, 2020 Open Letter from Healthcare Professionals: Release Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis We are writing as healthcare professionals to demand the immediate release of Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis from detention at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC). Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City has released people in detention to reduce the risk of outbreaks of this life-threatening disease. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis are two hard-working lawyers who dedicate their time advocating for their communities and who were detained for alleged property destruction at a protest in response to the murder of George Floyd. They pose no danger to society, yet the federal government insists on placing them and their futures in danger in order to demonstrate control and authority. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis are both lawyers who have a long-standing record of service to their communities and serve as primary caretakers for family members. Their detention harms not only them, but also the people who rely on them: Colinford cares for three young foster children and Urooj cares for her elderly mother. They have been charged with property destruction at a protest, and have no prior record of offenses. Notably, as would be expected in these circumstances, they were initially released on bail by two federal judges. After their release, the government took unusual action by appealing this decision. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis are now being held in Brooklyn MDC, a federal detention facility with multiple confirmed and dozens of suspected COVID-19 cases. As health care professionals, we know that holding them in this facility places them at significant risk of contracting the virus. People detained at Brooklyn MDC report that they are only allowed to shower a few days out of every week and that medical concerns do not receive prompt evaluation or treatment. Recently, a man detained at Brooklyn MDC died after being pepper sprayed in his cell, a clear example of deadly, excessive use of force within the facility. We are also deeply concerned that Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis have been held in solitary confinement, a practice that places them at risk of severe and irreparable psychological harm. People in solitary confinement experience difficulty sleeping, changes in appetite, chronic headaches, and palpitations. Psychological harms of solitary confinement include depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and self-harm, including suicide. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis’s unnecessary detention during a pandemic poses a significant danger to the health of other people in detention, prison employees, and the surrounding community. Prisons are high-risk areas for outbreaks of contagious illness and are not equipped to contain the spread of this highly infectious virus. One of the essential strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19 recommended by the CDC is social distancing. People who are in detention are frequently in shared spaces including shared dining halls, bathrooms, and showers. COVID-19 survives on surfaces and poses particular risk in these heavily utilized spaces. Other strategies for control of an infectious disease outbreak include hand washing, use of alcohol-based sanitizer, and regular cleaning of shared surfaces such as light switches, door handles, countertops. These measures often are not or cannot be implemented in detention facilities. Therefore, it is not surprising that nationally there have been 1,346 reported cases of COVID-19 in federal detention facilities, and 87 deaths. This is likely an underestimate, as many people in detention with COVID-19 symptoms are not tested. Facility staff, vendors, and contractors all travel between the detention facility and the community and can transmit the virus from the facility to surrounding areas. By appealing their release, the federal government chose to increase the number of people held at Brooklyn MDC, during a pandemic. In doing so they placed everyone who is held or works in the facility at greater risk of COVID-19. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis are at greater risk detained at Brooklyn MDC than they are isolating at home. In sum, as healthcare professionals, we care deeply about the health and well being of all New Yorkers. We have witnessed firsthand the catastrophic consequences of the administration’s failures to adequately prepare for this crisis. We cannot stand by as they continue to place people in danger in the pursuit of political gain. Therefore, in consideration of the health and dignity of Urooj Rahman, Colinford Mattis, other people in detention, and the wider New York community, we demand that you immediately release Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis to their families. Sincerely, 1. Sadaf Ijaz MD, Psychiatrist, Chester, VA 2. Jessica Merlin MD, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Pittsburgh, PA 3. Cheryl Conner MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Chicago IL 4. Kristiana Kaufmann MD, MPH, Assistant professor, Global and Urban Health Section Director, Detroit Wayne State University 5. Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH, Professor of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 6. Erin Schwartz MD, Associate Professor, Philadelphia, PA 7. Rashelle Musci PhD, Assistant Professor of Mental Health, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 8. Naheed Usmani, MD Pediatrics, Boylston MA, President of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America 9. Vasavi Devireddy M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical Director, New York, NY 10. Tracy K. Paul MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York, Weill Cornell Medicine 11. Omar Mirza DO, Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine, Bronx, New York 12. Marie DeLuca MD, Emergency Medicine Physician, Columbia University, New York, NY 13. Allison Ball MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Royal Oak, MI 14. Jennifer F Tseng MD, Chair of Surgery, Boston University, Boston, MA 15. Naila Moghul MD, Anesthesiology, Mass. General Hospital/Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 16. Husain M. Kazmi MBBS, Ophthalmologist and Clinical Director, Boston, MA 17. Mahmood Kazmi MD, Psychiatrist, Bronx, NY 18. Julie Childers MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 19. Andrew Goldstein MD, Internal Medicine, New York, NY 20. Clío Rubinos MD, Assistant professor Neurology / Neurocritical care/ Epilepsy, Chapel Hill, NC UNC 21. Jori Fleisher MD MSCE, Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 22. Lauren C. O’Brien MD, Associated Director Family Medicine, Washington, PA 23. Sarah Nayeem MD, Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry OSU, Columbus Ohio 24. Sindhu Idicula MD, Assistant Professor, Houston, TX 25. Elizabeth Mitchell MD, Associate Professor, Boston, MA 26. Veena Raiji MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Chicago, IL 27. Lisa VanWagner MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-GI & Hepatology and Preventive Medicine-Epidemiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 28. Danielle Loeb MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Denver, Co 29. Shawn Davis MD 30. Alya Khan, MD, MS, Assistant Clinical Professor, Program Director in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Irvine, CA 31. Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi MD, MSHPM, Assistant Professor in Residence, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 32. Kamran rizvi MD, Cardiology, Dallas, TX 33. Heather Platt MD, Clinical Director, North Wales, PA 34. Lubna Chaudhary MD, Assistant Professor, Brookfield, WI 35. Melanie Schmitt MD, Assistant Professor, Madison, WI 36. Jonathan Pak MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine Portland, OR 37. Ellen Eaton MD, Assistant Professor, Birmingham AL 38. Julie Sierra MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSD, San Diego 39. Sidney Merritt MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, UCSD, San Diego, CA 40. Hisam Goueli MD, Psychiatry, Inpatient Division Director of Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry, Doctors in Politics, Seattle, WA 41. Jessica Bloom MD FAAFP MD, Physician, Director of Physician Wellness, Bellingham, WA 42. Sarah D. Corathers MD, Associate Professor, Endocrinology, Cincinnati Childrens, Cincinnati, Ohio 43. Michael J. Lisieski MD, PhD, Family Medicine, Detroit, MI 44. Dona Kim Murphey MD, PhD, Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG), Pearland, TX 45. Lillian Ellis M.S., Clinical Psychology Associate, Ypsilanti, MI 46. Renuga Vivekanandan MD, Infectious disease, NE 47. Laura Ford-Nathan MD, Family Medicine Physician, St. Paul, MN 48. Joanna Reitmeyer RN, Pediatrics/ Critical Care, Topton 49. Robyn Sackeyfio MD, Plastic Surgery, Grand Rapids, MI 50. Robina Iqbal MD, Internal Medicine, Winfield, IL 51. Cara Kanter MD, Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 52. Kristen peske Do, Ob/gyn, Pittsburgh PA 53. Niloufer Khan MD, New York, NY 54. Minerva Burgos MD IM, Birmingham, AL 55. Ella M Gillespie MD, Internal Medicine, Atlanta 56. Karen Hanna MD, General Surgery, Vista, CA 57. Melissa Chen MD, Internal Medicine , Gurnee IL 58. Daisy Bassen MD, Child Psychiatry, East Greenwich, RI 59. Sapna Singh MD, Pediatrics, Sugar Land, TX 60. Mollie M. Cecil MD, Family Medicine, Morgantown, WV 61. Kristin Escamilla MD, Psychiatry, Austin, Texas 62. Elizabeth Mukherjee MD, Family Medicine Resident, Leawood, Kansas 63. Alice Shen MD, Psychiatry Resident,Yale University, Trumbull, CT 64. 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