NEW 50-state analysis: We gave every state’s parole system a letter grade. Most states failed.
Why investigate the parole process? Because, to incarcerated people, it can mean the difference between hope and despair. It deserves more of our attention.https://t.co/tImwSZb2Cw
— Prison Policy Init. (@PrisonPolicy) February 26, 2019
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Louisiana Insurance Commissioner James Donelon says that bail bondsmen in the state have been overcharging clients and must start issuing refunds. Donelon estimates that refunds could go to approximately 50,000 clients at a cost of nearly $6 million. https://t.co/CtlCW8m2pF
— The Appeal (@theappeal) February 21, 2019
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Needed: A tech upgrade and an end to overdetention in the Louisiana Department of Corrections. “Every week over the last decade, prison staff found at least one person who had been kept in jail or prison longer than their sentence required.” https://t.co/QKVomTVTKv
— The Appeal (@theappeal) February 26, 2019
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Repeat: Kalief Browder was locked up *pretrial* on $3500 bail he couldn’t afford for stealing a backpack *for longer than Manafort will now serve in prison* including time he already has in. Kalief was innocent. He later committed suicide. https://t.co/vE82ro6u1X
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) March 8, 2019
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Former Milwaukee County corrections officer James Lee Ramsey-Guy was sentenced to 30 days in prison in the dehydration death of Terrill Thomas, 36, at the jail. In 2016, Ramsey-Guy, who worked under Sheriff David Clarke, shut off the water in Thomas' cell. https://t.co/zF7PQDdtlK
— The Appeal (@theappeal) March 8, 2019
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Paul Manafort is a rich white man who stole millions, tampered witnesses & undermined US democracy. He got 4 years in prison.
Crystal Mason is a black woman who mistakenly cast a ballot in a local election. She got 5 YEARS.
Never tell me there is equal justice in this country. pic.twitter.com/7pHUxny6ig
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 8, 2019