#Prisons

thesweetfeminist

thesweetfem

Yesterday Biden announced that the federal gov’t will no longer contract with private prisons. But let’s put this into context (thread)! Currently, 8% of people incarcerated by the federal government

Dawn Foster

DawnHFoster

Prisons, like care homes, have high Covid rates and politicians and journalists arguing people in prisons should be lower down the priority lists for vaccines are sociopathic, and don’t give

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

josie duffy rice

jduffyrice

I hate to be a Debbie downer, but this private prisons EO does....barely anything! The vast majority of people in federal private prisons are in immigration detention. Meaning the DOJ

Lydia X. Z. Brown

autistichoya

Multiple things can be true: Matthew Rushin does not deserve prison. No one does. Prisons should not exist. They are violent+help no one+do not make us safe(r). Matthew also harmed

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

Craig Gilmore

CraigOGilmore

I've had enough of reading basically the same story year after year exposing the 'truth' about private prisons in the US. That the stories are sooo repetitive is annoying. That

Clint Smith

ClintSmithIII

It's not in the news as much anymore, but please don't forget that incarcerated people are still contracting and dying from covid at devastating rates. Covid cases in federal and

Joshua Miller

anotherpanacea

While this EO is silly, and I think the emphasis on private prisons is misplaced, there's bad argument against privates and a better one that deserves attention from serious scholars:

Shaila Dewan

shailadewan

DOJ: Alabama Inmates Are Subjected to Excessive Forcehttps://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/07/23/us/ap-us-alabama-prisons.html?smid=tw-share State attorney general says no way will Alabama enter a consent decree: “In short, a consent decr

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/13President Biden signed an executive order phasing out the federal govt's use of privatized prisons. It instructs the Justice dept. NOT to renew contracts with privately-operated prisons; a policy that

John Pfaff

JohnFPfaff

Sigh.Now, TBF, the Feds rely on privates a lot more than the publics do--at nearly twice the rate (even though 76% of ppl in privates are held by the states).

Danielle Ferguson

DaniFergs

Senate judiciary talking about a bill to expand compassionate parole to people in prison who have health conditions that would exacerbate pandemic illnesses:https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/217575.pdf Dep. secretary of SD DOC D

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MzYummyDread

We need to continue having this conversation. What does restorative justice look like with serial abusers? So far, I've seen nothing that would make me confident that's a sustainable framework.

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

enemy of the pod

hostarastrology

in "are prisons obsolete?" davis points out how the logic of the prison is so available in the art we consume, and that art is the way people interface and

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