Lanzhou Reading costs 5
cents a minute and the prisoners earn 30 cents an hour. Reading a 330
page book costs them about $20. Prisons are designed to destroy
people’s humanity. https://t.co/yiWu2Eeid2Schwalmstadt —
Joseph Hill (@jaceyhill) February
16, 2020
▪️ The US is the largest incarcerator in the world
▪️1 out of 3 Black boys can expect to go to prison in his lifetime
▪️50% of people in prison have some indicator of a mental health disorder
The prosecutorial system needs to change. https://t.co/0KmONR8L9X
— ACLU (@ACLU) February 23, 2020
Five Harvard students are suing the university's president, a senior fellow of Harvard Corporation, and Harvard's endowment manager over the university's investments in what they call the "prison-industrial complex." https://t.co/HkrKz3erBg
— CNN (@CNN) February 21, 2020
Harvard University “continues to benefit from its historical ties to slavery through its investments in the prison-industrial complex." https://t.co/CcUk72eUmN
— Black Enterprise (@blackenterprise) February 25, 2020