#FreeAlbertWoodfox
after his convictions overturned TWICE & being in Solitary Confinement 43 Yrs he's Still in jail!- http://t.co/HRHcscOi9l
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) September 16, 2015
Prison & Punishment for Crimes
Man Who Likened Himself To George Zimmerman Found Guilty of Second Degree Murder
by Xena
Twenty-nine year old Lukace Kendle is going to prison. Friday, he was convicted of second-degree murder with a firearm and attempted murder in the June 1, 2012, shooting that killed Kijuan Byrd, 29, and paralyzed Michael Smathers, 38. Kendle faces life behind bars.
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Guns in a racially biased U.S. is a bad idea.
Guns in the U.S. that does not provide universal mental health care is a bad idea.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 9.7
HT @ChuckModi1
Should Be Opening Question of Syllabus in Every White School. #WhiteDenial #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 9.7
Whole Foods' guard fired for bloody attack on customer who tried to pay with food stamps http://t.co/NIcy8XTwO3 pic.twitter.com/BAnKd4mBP8
— theGrio.com (@theGrio) September 5, 2015
#AlbertWoodfox has spent 43 Years in Solitary Confinement …
Plz Help –> http://t.co/7lqClUdgUR
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) September 6, 2015
#blacklivesmatter is about blacks being much more likely to die at the hands of the police http://t.co/bONLM5kFvb pic.twitter.com/rJUAWyLWmU
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) September 4, 2015
Should Be Opening Question of Syllabus in Every White School. #WhiteDenial #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy pic.twitter.com/3BBjk3sVic
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) September 5, 2015
#PrisonReform Tweets 9.5
IMPORTANT READ: California Prisons Agree to Limit Solitary Confinement http://t.co/6mAPFkyzWm
— deray mckesson (@deray) September 1, 2015
Another way in which prisons spread death. #abolishprison https://t.co/lweFDTBblu
— Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) September 4, 2015
Speakin of Outrage:
After 43 yrs in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT … #AlbertWoodfox is Still in prison ……….. http://t.co/7lqClUdgUR
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) September 1, 2015
ACLU slams Nebraska for allegedly buying lethal injection drugs from India http://t.co/XUZiETbjvU
— deray mckesson (@deray) August 21, 2015
Brothers McCollum 51, Brown 47, Finally Compensated after 30 years wrongfully incarcerated
Henry McCollum sits stunned as applause rings out in a Robeson County courtroom in Lumberton, N.C. Tuesday, September 2, 2014, after a judge has declared McCollum and his brother Leon Brown innocent of a brutal rape murder for which they have spent 30 years in prison. Behind him is Beverly Lake, Jr., founder of the Innocence Commission, who was vital in the process to free the men. Photo: Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT via Getty Images
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The knife pulled half way out kind of justice.
The knife pulled half way out kind of good news.
#AbolishPrisons
#Politics #HateCrime #Discrimination Tweets 8.22
Bernie Sanders Announces Bill To Abolish For-Profit Prison Industrial Complex http://t.co/e6PCgxBSLf
— john osalvo (@jojokejohn) August 20, 2015
50% of youth detentions are private—Confining kids for profit does not keep kids & communities safe, says @NJJNetwork http://t.co/rEHjFKSSDD
— Sentencing Project (@SentencingProj) August 20, 2015
Police: Invoking Trump, 2 men beat up homeless man because he is an 'illegal immigrant' http://t.co/9j1AMX7YMb
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 21, 2015
Someone please count the amount of times a non-white has been kicked out of school for their natural hair https://t.co/8uBXk8lKG2
— better (@keonahwinters) August 20, 2015
As if enough wasn't erased already through assimilation… this sickens me https://t.co/ASgGP2BxiZ
— Rossi (@skrattrisus) August 20, 2015
#VotingRights Tweets 8.11
Calif. restores voting rights to tens of thousands of people serving sentences under community supervision: http://t.co/KbWhCdQtlc
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 4, 2015
There is a deliberate, systematic effort to make it harder & more difficult for some people to vote. We must #RestoreTheVRA #VRA50
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) August 6, 2015
#PrisonReform #MassIncarceration Tweets 7.28
In US Prisons, Psychiatric Disability Is Often Met by Brute Force http://t.co/Y1jABzzMef #CJReform
— PrisonReformMovement (@PrisonReformMvt) July 19, 2015
Today @johnlegend visited a prison in Portugal learning how they decriminalized all drugs to reduce prisons & crime. pic.twitter.com/SAwJCxUv20
— #FREEAMERICA (@LetsFreeAmerica) July 16, 2015
#Slavelabor is alive and well in the #PIC– GA & TX do not pay prisoners for their work
— PrisonReformMovement (@PrisonReformMvt) July 19, 2015
John Legend: Mass incarceration is destroying America http://t.co/6cHYYr4DWq pic.twitter.com/Y3frt4OUXk
— TIME.com (@TIME) July 22, 2015
#RalkinaJones Becomes At Least The 3rd Black Female To Die In Police Custody This Month Alone
After being found dead in her jail cell bed on Sunday, a 37-year-old Cleveland native identified as Ralkina Jones became the third Black woman to die in police custody in the past two weeks.
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