#Prisons

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

BreeNewsome

Stop ignoring the defund & abolish movement when mentioning “police reform”. I’ve seen so many articles acknowledge there’s no real way to enforce proposed reforms or any proof it’ll make

L0G4Never Biden

notloganlovy

why i won't vote for joe biden & kamela harris, A THREAD:1. joe biden and barack obama, despite obama's promise to end wars, continued the war in iraq in 20112.

Christopher Connelly

hithisischris

1/ Last week, I spoke with Mendy Forbes, who is serving time at FMC Carswell, a medical prison in Fort Worth. This weekend, her father told me she was put

Olusoga Owoeye

olusogaowoeye

SARS was a special breed of police men who stood between us and hardened criminals. It contain some bad elements for lack of oversight,we asked for it to be reformed

Absurdistwords

absurdistwords

No it isn't.For every crime committed by someone in jail there are ten more committed by people you interact with regularly and just consider people.People just like to think they

Center for Community Alternatives

CCA_NY

Next week, New York’s Senate will hold a hearing on COVID-19 in jails and prisons. Why does this matter?A THREAD. 1/ In New York City, the infection rate in city

Kate Clanchy

KateClanchy1

A couple of people have asked me for creative writing ideas for prisons, so I am just putting a thread up. I've never worked in a prison, but this works

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

I know y’all mean well, but When people criticize prison abolition by saying “what about the rapists & murderers?” the respone shouldn’t be “we don’t do anything about rapists &

Harmeet K. Dhillon

pnjaban

Thread: Many people have asked me about the grassroots effort to recall Gavin Newsom, backed by a growing number of Californians. It takes a lot to recall a politician, but

Lara Adams-Miller

LaraAdamsMille1

If transwomen are women, they bear no obligation to show that trans-inclusive policy changes won’t be harmful to women or anyone.There’s a reason we’ve been consistently fed that line above

Keri Blakinger

keribla

UPDATE: This story has taken a sad turn. This man should have been released yesterday - but when his wife went to pick him up, the prison said nevermind. Now

Witt

WittGorrie

The people who are dying from #COVID19 overwhelming are the same people who the system kills daily. Only this time their deaths impact upon the lives + freedoms of white

Clark Neily

ConLawWarrior

DOJ has now represented that it coerced one of the world's most powerful men into falsely pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit. What are the odds that

josh

slimeslinger

are. you. fucking. kidding. me. “When private companies contract with prisons, the labor isn’t cheap. Federal law requires contractors to pay minimum wage for inmate work. The state may garnish

Aliyu

Poksmahn

Footballers deserve all the millions they earn. I've always thought that they were overpaid brats until the day our NYSC team went to play the prisoners at Ilaro Prisons.Prior to

fruit springsteen

prismxp

A good faith, detailed engagement: the Mathieson’s cite has traction from it’s inclusion in Wikipedia, which in turn directs to a print interview w/ Davis (so little read). Davis is