#Prisons

David Graeber

davidgraeber

Required reading for everyone who feels that "anti-imperialist principles" or realpolitik oblige them to support the Assad regime. You're just validating systematic industrial-scale rape, torture, and murder as a means

Chris England

RepEngland70

Alabama is another step closer to spending at least 2.6 billion on building three new prisons for men. I have never seen people so happy to spend this much money

Mia Mingus

miamingus

As a survivor of child sexual abuse, working for abolition via transformative justice, more police and more prisons will not stop sexual violence. If it did, we would not have

Xandra Ibarra

lachicaboom

EmailCDCR Secretary Ralph Diaz: ralph.diaz@cdcr.ca.gov Governor Gavin Newsom: https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/ On this page, click “Have comment,” enter your name and email address in the fields provided, choose “Prison I

rosalindcrone

rosalindcrone

“Every prison has to have a library. Not so every school.”Very disappointed to hear @bbcnickrobinson use this headline for a piece promoting school libraries on @BBCr4today this morning. I suspect

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Just_ReneaR

Approximately 20 percent of inmates in jails and 15 percent of inmates in state prisons have a serious mental illness. Based on the total number of inmates, this means that

Carol 🦎⚢

SourPatches2077

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

Bill Melugin

BillFOXLA

NEW: Twitter accounts belonging to two members of L.A. D.A. candidate George Gascon's Public Policy Committee posted controversial tweets including calling LAPD officers "barbarians", calling for prisons to be abolished,

Studio Glibly

NoTotally

Ah, but this is part of the point, friend! Stop for the next 20 minutes or so and truly appreciate that it WILL have to happen rather than thinking about

Professor Wright 🎓

Savion

One of the most disgusting and gut wrenching ways White America disproportionately disenfranchises minorities in America: A THREAD. Step 1: By disproportionately imprisoning Black people. The facts are Black people

PSN London

psn_ldn

This morning, the government announced plans to release people on temporary licence (ROTL), supposedly as a reaction to the pandemic. Whilst this may seem like a step in the right

Anoop Prasad

anoop_alc

Shortly, Gov. @GavinNewsom and @CACorrections will announce that they ended two private prison contracts ahead of schedule and claim victory against mass incarceration.It's not just a hollow gesture. They just

Hannah Riley

hannahcrileyy

Thread: Georgia prisons have descended into total COVID-19 related chaos. They have always been horrific, but since the onset of the pandemic, conditions have deteriorated to the point of serious

ROUVAFE ✈️⛵️🏖🏔

IamRouvafe

The lockdown earlier this year taught me that ‘right to freedom of movement’ is a very important right. The ability to wake up and be able to go wherever you

White Sea

whiteseamusic

As a pragmatist in an echo chamber & a person who believes American economics is a foundational root I wish more of us would explore, learn + talk about -

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