#Prisoners

Keep Prisons Single Sex

NoXYinXXprisons

The Economist on gender ID in the USA & the impact on women's prisons. Thread:https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/01/30/putting-trans-women-in-female-prisons-sets-up-a-clash-of-rights Summary of article: This month Californ

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 4th instalment of #deanehistory. Back to the Second World War today, but whilst in the 2nd instalment we looked at the very end, this is the very

File411

File411

while today’s Indictment of 4 @ALCorrections feels like the arch of justice bends towards actual justice What about the 2 prisoners the guarded beat to death?How much force is required

Keri Blakinger

keribla

Just jumping in to say that we still use prisoners as slave labor here in Texas. They work in fields, are not paid, and face punishment if they don't go

Ben Domenech

bdomenech

Good morning! Has @JohnBrennan apologized for lying about Hunter Biden's money laundering for China being a Russian plot yet? Or maybe first he should apologize for lying about his CIA

Katherine Miller

katherinemiller

Friends, the time has come for the annual thread of links. Around the holidays, I like to share stuff from the year (culture, politics, news, whatever) that I found compelling

Abandoned America 🏚️🇺🇲

abandonedameric

Is it depression if you're unhappy when there's so much to be unhappy about? Has happiness always been at best a conscious rejection of one's own sorrow and at worst

Dr Naomi Wolf

naomirwolf

1/WHY are bars, restaurants snd houses of worship being targeted? Not just for epidemiological reasons as the science for this is thin if rooms are ventilated, cleaned. But because people

B.T. Harman

BT_Harman

1911 - In the midst of the Ripper murders, a Georgia hero passes away from old age.Clement Anselm Evans was a decorated veteran of the Confederate Army who rose to

Khadeja R (she/her)

k_ramali

LIBYA ALERT Takedown involving a cross-platform network linked to Russia and IRA that targetted Libya, Syria and SudanConnections with LNA employees Linked to Aljamahiria Tv and JANA website promoting Saif

habibi

habibi_uk

*Thread* Hashem Abedi's sentence for the Manchester bombing atrocity is very welcome.Unfortunately, his story is far from the only one in Manchester terror. Consider another Mancunian, Jamal al-Harith, and his

Dreaming Freedom Practicing Abolition

studyabolition

If you buy books about prisons, buy some books for prisoners. We have a spreadsheet with addresses and books needed, DM us for a link if you have a spare

Maggie Lovitt

maggieofthetown

So, I would like to be “real” for a minute. For those of you who have been with me since December, you likely remember how depressed I was last year

Curse

cursedsalad

One of the foundational texts of the Holocaust mythos is a book called Night, written by professional Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. The original Yiddish manuscript described how Jewish prisoners liberated

Jean Mackenzie

jeanmackenzie

[THREAD] Here are some reflections from my time in Belarus.1) People say don’t fear the regime in the way they used to. So many people told me they'd become so

Abdulla Hawez

abdullahawez

Turkish choppers have airdropped hundreds of elite troops on top of Gara mountain to the west of Zap region in central northern Iraqi Kurdistan as Turkish defence minister announces a

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