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</font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you for signing the letter to urge Judge Kai Scott to reconsider her denial of compassionate release for Russell Maroon Shoatz. Thanks to your support, Russell "Maroon" Shoatz has been granted a compassionate release by Judge Kai Scott, today, October 25th, 2021. </font></div></div>
            <div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Maroon has been imprisoned for over 49 years and now suffers rapidly deteriorating health due to stage 4 colorectal cancer. His condition is terminal, and now requires palliative care that involves parenteral nutrition through IV, which the PA DOC has neglected to provide. </font></div></div>
            <div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Effective immediately, Maroon will be transferred from SCI Dallas to emergency care at an outside hospital. They will evaluate his current state of health and provide the necessary assessments to begin home hospice care. </font></div></div>
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                      <div>w/ the Afro Yaqui Music Collective</div>
                      <div>Johnny Mandel Prize Winner (2018) in Jazz
                        Composition from ASCAP</div>
                      <div>PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Jazz Studies</div>
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