We\u00a0wanted to share one\u00a0of the exciting\u00a0outcomes of this year’s Primary Care spring advocacy project: an op ed by the residents\u00a0advocating for decarceration. This year, as last year, residents and faculty collaborated with Prisoners Legal Services, a group of Massachusetts\u00a0lawyers who work on behalf of people who are incarcerated. They focussed on the plight of people who are incarcerated during COVID-19.\u00a0For the op-ed, they targeted\u00a0CommonWealth Magazine, a magazine whose main audience is\u00a0Massachusetts legislators, due to a timely piece of legislation that they wanted to support. One of our senior residents Jordy Laks led the collaborative writing project and had a great deal of\u00a0engagement from the entire group. A smaller group of residents (Hannan Braun, Sam Siskind and Jordy) also\u00a0wrote an affadavit in support of a class action suit that Prisoners Legal Services initiated to highlight\u00a0the dangerous conditions in MA\u00a0prisons during COVID-19. In addition, several residents provided statements at a virtual\u00a0meeting of legislators around the House bill.<\/p>\n