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Coalition of abolitionists working on the intersection of technology/innovation and the prison-industrial complex.
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"Many prisons are built in areas that have been subjected to long-term environmental degradation. In some cases, prisons are even located on toxic waste sites, former industrial sites, or landfills." scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/enviro…
Prison phone companies should NOT be able to charge for videophone calls between signers, or captioned telephone calls! Charging for these calls will further harm our disabled communities. Full video: bit.ly/vrs-calls-in-p… #DeafPrisonPhoneJustice (1/2)
A county jail is forcing families of incarcerated people to send their letters to a for-profit company that will scan and destroy their correspondence and make people inside read those letters and limited shared tablets. We're suing to stop it. eff.org/deeplinks/2023…
BREAKING! @knightcolumbia @EFF @SocialJusticeLF have filed the first lawsuit in the country against the elimination and digitization of mail in prisons and jails. We hope this reverses this problematic trend. Incarcerated people deserve to hold their mail. knightcolumbia.org/content/incarc…
Checkout the 3rd issue of PJPXInside! Created for incarcerated writers who can’t access our stories online, PJPxInside incl. some of our best stories from the last six months and training on how journalism can be done behind walls. Take a glimpse: prisonjournalismproject.org/pjp-x-inside/
NEW! There are 4,000+ corporations in the prison industry, it's about time we knew who they are. We just released an interactive database exposing them all. Here's a glimpse at just a few. 🧵 Visit data.worthrises.org to dig deeper into the dark web of prison profiteering.
For decades, families have skipped rent, meals, dr visits to afford a call with a loved one inside. It would cost $13M, or just 0.09% of CDCR’s $14B budget, to make calls FREE, connect families, improve reentry, increase public safety. @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom sign SB1008 today!
New from @dnbrgr in our symposium on Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering: The Pandemic Prison blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/09/14/the…
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The Pandemic Prison - Petrie-Flom Center
The pandemic prison is a harbinger, not an aberration, of the society that creates and maintains it.
feel super psyched to finally share this piece I wrote for @nplusonemag on the history of prisoner resistance and prison conditions litigation: nplusonemag.com/issue-43/polit…
An administrator is informing nearly half of Oregon's prison population that they're included in a class-action suit. It's the first of its kind. by @sl_stites oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/07/22/nea…
Nearly half of Oregon’s inmate population included in first class action suit of its kind The case accuses the state Department of Corrections of negligence during in failing to protect them from Covid oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/07/22/nea…
EMERGENCY!!! Texas is refusing to evacuate prisoners directly in the path of a major wildfire! Surrounding homes were evacuated hours ago, help us ensure our folks inside are safely evacuated NOW!!!! CALL! SHARE! THEN CALL AGAIN!!! Every bit helps! #abolitionnow #ClimateJustice
Many thousands of incarcerated people still don't have A/C, as the temp hits 107 degrees in parts of Texas today. I wish this @MarshallProj piece on men dying inside wasn't relevant every summer. w/@johncarlosfrey, @abbycellis, @sollygrana @abbycellis themarshallproject.org/2017/10/11/coo…
Check out this new report from @Verite, urging scrutiny of prison labor in the US using the same international labor standards that the US uses to scrutinizes forced labor around the world. It's time we #EndTheException. No slavery. No exceptions. verite.org/work-behind-ba…
More than two years after an outbreak of mass violence led to 10 people being killed in less than a month at Mississippi's Parchman Farm prison, the federal Department of Justice has found conditions at the prison violate the US constitution. justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
Listen to our recent panel discussion on the importance of physical mail in prisons, featuring @CosbyMoni, @Laj_posey, Mychal Pagan, @uptownserg, Andre Pierce, Ellis Maxwell, and @MayaSchenwar. Intro by @phillyprof03 and moderated by @charlotteerosen. beyond-prisons.com/home/panel-why…
⭐️Physical mail is under attack in Delaware prisons⭐️ Join us Thursday for this panel discussion on the importance of physical mail in prison and how the prison industrial complex works to undermine imprisoned people's ability to meaningfully communicate with their loved ones.
$Prison 7: @AttentiUS owned by @apax_partners Meet e-carcerator Attenti, an Israeli-based corp that prides itself on being "the global leader in electronic monitoring for over 25 yrs." Attenti does electronic monitoring in over 30 countries, tracking over 200,000 people.
MA families pay about $24 million a year for phone calls with incarcerated loved ones, according to @WorthRises. Why does it cost so much? In short: corporate profits & fees paid to prisons that look an awful lot like kickbacks. wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…
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The Telephone Is A Lifeline For Prison Families. And Calls Are Outrageously Expensive
Maintaining strong family ties during incarceration is proven to reduce rates of recidivism. But in Massachusetts, incarcerated people and their families spend $24 million a year to talk on the phone.
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