#Prisoners

Senator Jeff Merkley

SenJeffMerkley

The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery—with one big caveat: “except as a punishment for a crime.” For a century and half, that’s been used to re-enslave American citizens (disproportionately black men).

Alan Mills

alan_uplc

As one of "the advocates," I need to clarify what happened. We pushed very hard for prisoners to be HIGHER in the priority list. Prisoners who are permanently housed in

ElizaPetch

ElizaPetch

Govt disclosure of sexual offences recorded for transgender prisoners for March/April 2019 collection data published sentences for 1 or more sexual offences :Rape : 40Att rape : 10Possess/distribute/make photos of

Jailhouse Lawyers Speak - #DefundThePolice

JailLawSpeak

Prisoners are beaten by the prison security everyday somewhere in this country. Yet, it rarely if ever hits the public channels. Usually when it does it's due to a lawsuit

Maggie Quinlan

quinlan_maggie

It's easy to numb up to COVID in prisons but let me lay out some Airway Heights prison facts:-92% of prisoners have tested+ since Dec. 1-Compare: 3% of Spokane county

Miranda

DaviesMiranda1

1/4. New @NuffieldTrust analysis comparing the no of Covid-19 cases in prisons to the general population over the last 6-months. Age-sex standardised case rates per 1,000 have consistently been higher

The Countess Didn't Fight For This!

TCDFFT

THREAD:"If transwomen are women, then transmen are men & all it entails which means women are less violent in general & men are more violent. If transwomen are women then

A girl has no name

LoudMouthedChic

Here's the thing about prison inmates in South Africa, right.1. Our criminal justice system is horribly overburdened and many matters can take months or even years to reach finality. If

David Dayen

ddayen

.@alex_sammon has a little scoop:Kamala Harris repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general, according to legal

Auschwitz Memorial

AuschwitzMuseum

18 January 1945 | In the early morning female camp at Birkenau began the evacuation. On that day 5,345 women left the camp and began the Death March. #Auschwitz76 1/4

Giorgi Gogia

Giorgi_Gogia

Thread on new report on ill-treatment & abuse of Armenian POWs:1/ @hrw documented inhumane treatment of ethnic Armenian military troops captured by #Azerbaijan forces during #Karabakh conflict: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/02/azerba

Helen Rogers

helenrogers19c

Just starting now! Cockatoo Island is in Sydney Harbour and set up as convict islandhttps://twitter.com/katyaroscoe/status/1298933750055796736 Island visible from Sydney so convicts on display. On view to civilisation but not able

Choose Love

chooselove

Napier Barracks in Kent has been used to house around 400 people seeking asylum.⁣Not only are 22 people on suicide watch, but now over a quarter of the entire population

Chris Leak

leaky74

@JohnGlenUK I can’t help think you’re being deliberately obtuse. A mortgage prisoner has typically been trapped & exploited for several years on an SVR they can’t escape and held captive

David May

DavidSamuelMay

A thoroughly "distorted and misleading" article.https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/07/why-the-discourse-about-palestinian-payments-to-prisoners-families-is-distorted-and-misleading/ 1. It is not bigoted to poi

OpDeathEaters

OpDeathEaters

China began allowing organ removal from executed prisoners in 1984. Over the past 36 years this practice has expanded to the point that the CCP are now running an international

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