http://thebeginningfarmer.com/efficiency/ In New York, Black people are 5 times more likely than whites to be incarcerated for technical violations.
— Prison Policy Init. (@PrisonPolicy) September 15, 2020
That’s incarceration for noncriminal behaviors that violate (often onerous and overly burdensome) probation/parole rules. https://t.co/1kOHNd4NCs
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The whistleblowing complaints of medical neglect, further findings, & a new @Kare11 investigation has led to the director of the Minnesota’s Department of Corrections (DOC) Inspection and Enforcement Unit being placed on administrative leave.
— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) September 29, 2020
New Report: https://t.co/lY6YAAh0zW pic.twitter.com/4IvVEedhaS
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Most of the 700,000 people in jail are still eligible to vote, because they are in pretrial detention or serving sentences for minor offenses. But few can actually do so. “The de facto disenfranchisement of jailed citizens is a democratic failure.” https://t.co/7qhmD7Ltag
— The Appeal (@theappeal) October 24, 2020
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80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime, a new report finds https://t.co/EjLpTPPQ4E
— Vox (@voxdotcom) November 12, 2020
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“80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime”
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) November 16, 2020
This is a moral outrage. https://t.co/rJMEpSxSsj
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New Orleans voters just elected a district attorney who has committed to ending mass incarceration.
— ACLU (@ACLU) December 6, 2020
Local elections matter. https://t.co/bksYgf6xTN
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Defund the police isn’t just a slogan.
— Max Berger (@maxberger) December 2, 2020
It’s a demand to shift resources from incarceration and criminalization to education and emancipation.
It might not be good politics right now — but neither was abolition for decades before the civil war. Movements shift public opinion.