#Jails

Cori Bush

CoriBush

I toured our jails in St. Louis City over the weekend with @saintlouismayor, @stlcao, @iKaylaReed, and our teams. I need to tell you about the conditions we saw.We need to

Libby Seline

LibbySeline

This represents thousands of hours of labor, phone calls, emails, FOIA requests, frustration, joy, shock, horror, and basically the past year of my life. But more importantly, it tells the

ACLU of Connecticut

acluct

For weeks, public health experts & medical workers have made clear to Governor Lamont that that there is a heightened risk of COVID-19 infection for people in prisons and jails,

Priti Krishtel

pritikrishtel

My heart is full watching the #COVID19 crisis unfolding in San Quentin prison. Why? We already know what it looks like when a global pandemic is unleashed on prisons. I’m

Zoé

ztsamudzi

Sharing this....https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1246003254825279488 ....alongside this thread about horrifying new carceral legislation coming out of New York which expands the kinds of cases that are jail eligible *in the midst of a

Mike Navallo

mikenavallo

Office of SolGen opposes plea of inmates seeking temporary release from jail amid #COVID19 threat saying congestion in jails is not a ground for their release. Accuses them of being

Joshua B. Hoe

JoshuaBHoe

#MemorialDay Today is to remember people who made the ultimate sacrifice in uniform, and we will remember them.But, there is another kind of sacrifice as well, many people who return

Philip Grant

PhilipGrant40

Arrest in #Sweden over 1988 prison massacre in #Iran.This is what we know so far.1. A man under the name of Hamid Noury was arrested at Stockholm airport on Saturday

Gimme the Lute

moontwerk

CW: pregnancy loss, deathJust a reminder that abolition is a reproductive justice issue. I was a doula for (formerly) incarcerated pregnant people and, from experience and research, I learned that

lizzie

mama__lucha

today Miami’s state attorney put out a gross video framing everyone that is in our county jails right now as violent dangerous thieves and r*pists, as a reason why she

Jacob Soboroff

jacobsoboroff

You can see clearly here that Trump won't even come close to Obama when it comes to first term deportation numbers. To understand why, look at this data from @TRACReports

FairPlayForWomen

fairplaywomen

Trans prisoners make up 1% of the female prison population but are committing a disproportionately high number of sexual assaults. /1https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8303753/Transgender-inmates-carried-seven-sex-attacks-women-jail.html?ito=fa

Alliance for Safety and Justice

SafeandJustUSA

Our organization has always advocated against over-incarceration. But what #COVID19 uncovered is: our country’s obsession with locking people up in jails and prisons as a first response to everything is

jesse

_jorts_

i am 26 years old and i personally think that if i were to date a 21 year old i should go to jail a lot of people who want

The Alliance for Middle East Peace - ALLMEP

ALLMEP_usa

ALLMEP strongly objects to the unjust detention of 7 peace activists from our member organization the Gaza Youth Committee. We continue to demand their immediate release, & thank the govts,

Sim

shipcourse

the backpedaling in the comments is very funny, “I don’t think jails should exist but if they DO they should be used to imprison adults who date slightly younger adults”https://twitter.com/_jorts_/status/1262157571038892033