#Prisons

therapy is just as effective as prisons - so, none.https://twitter.com/cringepolitik/status/1335405761426464769 How does one even rehabilitate most "criminals", how many can actually be rehabilitated? Like it seems silly to be lik
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Today, when asked about vaccine distribution in prisons & jails, the Governor claimed to not know the definition of “congregate” setting. This comes
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THREAD: Ok, this will be long, but I wanted to share some reflections on today's executive order by President Biden to not renew federal contracts w/ many private prisons. I
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1/"As the explosion of infections in San Quentin Prison demonstrates, the cost of inaction is catastrophic.” Read this @SFChronicle op ed w/ @ScottColom on the evolving tragedy behind bars. Ignoring
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this ideal world most leftist women are envisioning (police defunded, prisons closed, no death penalty, sex work legalized etc etc) would not only create an environment that can only be
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Were most prisons made of stone because they are good conductors...considering all the humans inside can absorb and emit electrical current Why do they keep these prisons even
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Someone just wrote a response to one of my tweets about COVID conditions in prisons...they said:"Maybe they shouldn't have gone to prison"The sheer lack of empathy it takes to be
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Some thoughts and a plea: Vaccines in prisons, just like on the outside, are bandages upon systems that function through mass death of people who are disposable for and external
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Alright, here's a quick thread on why US prisons are concentration camps. According to Oxford, the definition of a concentration camp is "a place where large numbers of people, especially
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as the "defund is a bad slogan" takes continue i think more on how the next move shouldn't be 'try saying Reform again' but putting more in showing the connection
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Prison Thread The lack of comprehension about what a prison actually is amazes me. In California at least, men’s prisons are brutal places. California has generally allowed correctional officers
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People act shocked and ask me all the time, "you would just let people at-risk over 65 out of their sentences?"Yes...maybe there are exceptions, but yes.In addition, sentence-lengths are largely
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Since I had my worldview transformed by a conversation about how prisons are among the most pressing environmental justice struggles of our time, I'll drop some links here for those
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One of the points of confusion around prisons I think is that the prison system is absolutely white supremacist, and its rank and file operators (cops and guards) often openly
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Let's talk about how we've been making the same basic demands for our people for 8 months now, yet the governor has allowed COVID-19 to run through our prisons &
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37 minutes. That’s how long I was able to bear the Louisiana heat in my car, turned off, with the windows rolled up. These conditions are comparable to those that
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