#Prisons

Mercy

lilghettogirl__

The carceral state says that a harmdoer is nothing more than the harm they caused. Once you're in the system, you're marked forever as a harmdoer and subject to punishment

Marcus

ImKingGinger

A primer on why NOT supporting the death penalty is hatred.1. It's unjust to lock humans in cages, and doing so punishes the victims with the cost of the criminals

Bob Libal

blibal

THREAD: Today, the Biden administration ordered the Department of Justice to phase out private prisons. Here’s what we know about what order does and doesn’t do and what some of

Keri Blakinger

keribla

#BREAKING Texas death row prisoner Jorge Villanueva died this weekend after testing positive for covid, several sources confirm. He had been on the row 25 years, was blind and had

Chris England

RepEngland70

So now that 2 of the 3 deals were signed this morning, let’s talk prisons. Over the next few days, we are going to hear several things that just aren’t

John Pfaff

JohnFPfaff

At least three important points to pull from this NYT piece on the private prison EO: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/business/biden-private-prisons-justice-department.html1. The union representing public-sector Fed prison staff is happy

David Bennion

dcbennion

As people wind down from celebrating the end of Trump’s term today, please remember tonight there are families sleeping in ICE prisons in TX and PA and in sanctuary churches

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

My old workplace @uplcchicago is jammed up. Their people who normally throw down hard on end of the year fundraising largely pivoted to efforts to help prisoners get free, get

Z

TheZWidler

We need to talk about how Covid-19 has been disproportionately impacting and destroying the lives of prisoners. A thread... The U.S. currently incarcerates more of its population than any other

Ron Bassilian

Ron4California

The bureaucracy elected Joe Biden. This isn’t some abstract or smashmouth statement. As with physics theory, it has verifiable and testable results. If the bureaucracy successfully subverts the will of

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

“Defund the police” freaks people out because it actually addresses structural racism in a concrete way. Anything that addresses systemic racism or economic inequality beyond shallow symbolism & gestures will

Kanyi Maqubela

km

Private prisons are scary, and recall chattel slavery. But only 8% of US prisoners are in private prisons.An even bigger issue: the actions of private companies who get contracts to

Your Friendly Butch Anarchist

butchanarchy

White people need to stop trying to fool ourselves and others with the myth that we’re only racist bc we just “don’t know any better.” It’s a flight to innocence

Bobbin Singh

Bobbin_Singh

We have 5,000 plus jails and prisons in the U.S. This is the most comprehensive and elaborate infrastructure of incarceration and punishment the world has known. "From slavery until today,

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

Incarcerated people have a substantially higher chance of surviving COVID-19 if their requests for compassionate release come before judges appointed by Obama or Clinton. Those unfortunately enough to face Trump

Behrouz Boochani

BehrouzBoochani

1: This Migration Amendment Bill 2020 is exactly what Peter Dutton always dreamed of imposing on all Australians. Aust society resisted his attacks on freedom of speech. Now he wants

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