#Prisons

Re: that phone in prison thread: Cell phones should obviously be given to everyone inside pending mass release or abolition. But prisons and prison comms companies operate exactly w the
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"While prison doctors and officials contend that these forced sterilizations were in each person’s best interest and an overall social benefit, [the subjects] call into question how these procedures continued
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In honor of our membership campaign, here are some visual presentation highlights from @themarshallproject. To start, here are Mariceu Erthal Garcia's beautiful photos for @JuliaPrestonNow's story on the heartbreaking impact
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I don't know if you all have seen the video circulating of the young man hitting the young woman with the skateboard today. I'm not going to re-share it because
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Why I firmly believe Islam supports prison abolition: a thread I am a Muslim before anything else, and my religion teaches me to have humility, spread the truth, and practice
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this is a big story: biden admin is beginning to end physical mail for federal prisoners. there's a lot more to this, and it's a story of corporate profiteering off
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posted about this on IG yesterday and want to do the same here. this is the tough conversation we were working through: what is crime? and how do prisons assist
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1. Hey everyone. For the last three months @ginamckeon and I have been investigating what happened to Mara Ellis in one of Australia’s largest men’s prisons for @BackgroundBrief. I want
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It's been a dramatic week: see pinned tweet. Today I woke up bleeding. It's "that time" of the month again. Despite any conscious willing on my part, my female body
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Happy birthday to us! On Sunday, The Marshall Project marked six years of publishing criminal justice journalism. We’re taking some time to celebrate, but also to reflect on what has
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Update to #Texas rise in #SARSCoV2 cases. Texas 7 day rolling average of cases per day has increased by 118% in the past ten days, going from 1780 to 3881.
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On a quarterly earnings call, CoreCivic execs are trying to calm concerns that a Biden presidency will be bad for business: "If Joe Biden were to become the next president,
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The IRS has actively sabotaged incarcerated people's efforts to get $1200 stimulus checks they're entitled to under the CARES Act. This includes not only misleading people about how to get
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It's pretty well understood this far into COVID that everybody's health is interconnected. So, the only explanation for @ErinOToole's take here is that he's OK risking *all* of our lives
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Kay Ivey is doing back room deals to try & spend 3 billion of AL taxpayer's $ to build prisons & lease them to corecivic for private profits & has
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During my “induction” into prison, in the first fifteen minutes of being read the many, many rules, I was told emphatically that I was not to have sex with any
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