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THREAD: There are 9,000 people caged in the downtown Houston jail, most of them solely because they can't pay cash. The situation is getting dire: "We don't have any running
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Thread: a 69-year-old man with pancreatic cancer was just jailed in Texas in the middle of his chemotherapy because he couldn't pay $500 cash bail after being accused of shoplifting
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this is a big story: biden admin is beginning to end physical mail for federal prisoners. there's a lot more to this, and it's a story of corporate profiteering off
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Thread: When working on bail in Alabama, we found a man trapped in jail for cocaine possession because he couldn't pay $500 cash. He had been there for 3 years,
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THREAD: The problems with police are different from what we're usually told. The issue is not a few "bad apples." (1) It's not “bad apples" who quintupled the US incarceration
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THREAD: It is with sadness that I tell you about Preston Chaney, who died in the Houston jail of COVID. He was trapped there for 3.5 months because he couldn't
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THREAD: Democrats are now demanding an increase to the Capitol Police force budget. A few things you might not know about the Capitol Police: (1) Capitol Police already have a
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THREAD: @Harvard is offering a class where elite students can learn from ex-military about using "counterinsurgency methods" from Iraq and Afghanistan to "clean up" Black and Brown communities in Massachusetts.
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THREAD: When politicians talk "reform" of racist systems, remember the story of how New York politicians used "reform" after Kalief's death to perpetuate violence against Black children. (1)https://www.newyorker.com/
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THREAD: This is another very bad NYT article by the metro desk. Almost everything in here is worth criticizing, include the idea to write the story. But a few high-level
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THREAD: A few more shocking things about Harvard University using students to test military counterinsurgency tactics on behalf of police brutalizing young people of color in Massachusetts. (1)https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1353006
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THREAD: A few thoughts on basic things that many people don't know about the US legal system, which now cages Black people at six times the rate of South Africa
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