#Jails

Survived & Punished NY

survivepunishNY

As lead up to tomorrow's NYC budget vote, we want to remind everyone that when we say #DefundPolice we also mean #DefundDAs. Here are 8 reasons why: [THREAD 1/10] #1

Michelle Baruchman ⛰

mlbaruchman

I’m here at Seattle Central with @pmalonedc and @bettinahansen. Trump has deployed a team of federal agents waiting at Seattle’s doorstep. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/trump-politically-targets-cities-like-portland

Marie Edinger KMPH

MarieEdinger

Charlie Michael Everitt escaped from jail in Merced County Monday night. The @MercedSheriff says he chiseled through the wall, Shawshank-style, climbed up through the HVAC system to the roof, and

Ashley C. Ford

iSmashFizzle

Damn near everybody in the midwest has a knife. I literally got rid of mine the day before I moved to NYC. I taught at Boy Scout Camp and all

Ms. Frizzle goes to Court

pennylope

Day 7 of quarantine while I wait for my covid test results. I’ve taken it very seriously because I’m not an asshole like @RandPaul - but god, I just can’t

DiogenesSister

DiogenesSister

1/ I'm a frontline worker in a setting no one much cares about: A jail. Jails aren't prisons. Most inmates are there on petty charges; some are there for short

Christopher Mathias

letsgomathias

At a bus stop in Bed-Stuy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rikers-prisoners-coronavirus_n_5e7e705ec5b6256a7a2a995d

Megan Hickey

MeganHickeyTV

"Jails in this country are petri dishes." Current infection rate in Cook County: Less than 2 out of every 1,000 people Current infection rate in the Cook County JAIL: 1

heather sinclair

skinnyawkward

Please don’t forget there ARE people in jail and solitary confinement who haven’t seen THE SUN since February. There are people awaiting court dates, with no convictions, who have been

Kathy Flaherty

ConnConnection

Thinking about yesterday and how excited we were about simple words. I know I was excited because so many of the policies of the last 4 (or 40 or 400)

San Diego Sheriff

SDSheriff

Read @SDSheriff Bill Gore's response to @SupFletcher regarding Request for Interest (RFI) to provide medical services at county jails. https://bit.ly/2Dvei9g

Gee

geesemmalar

There is an odd kind of shame associated with people who test positive. Many in my locality are keeping their positive status a secret out of fear of social ostracization.

Tina M Brown

Tbrownsanjo

It’s not too late - Please help me and many others put pressure on CA Governor by asking him to act now for releases during the health crisis of Covid19.

Tony Messenger

tonymess

Reading archive stories from St. Louis’ very violent 1993 (worse than current year) and the rhetoric is all the same. More cops. Bigger jails. Unprecedented federal cooperation. Help needed from

Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️

Imani_Barbarin

If you follow me, I want you all to realize this: One of the most useful tools to upholding white supremacy is ableism. Why else was it previously impossible to

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

In the 1930s it was understood that if a Black man was accused of a violent crime against a white person on the Eastern Shore of MD, local officials would