July 1, 2022 by V Leigh

The 13th Amendment didn’t completely abolish slavery & purposely excludes incarcerated individuals. A new ACLU report explores the use of prison labor across the U.S. & how prisoners make little to nothing for their work while incarcerated!

Another person died at Rikers today — a jail meant to hold people temporarily — the 8th person this year, the second in 24 hours. Have we become numb to the monotony of crises?
— Elizabeth Glazer (@LizGlazerNYC) June 21, 2022

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NEW 🚨: In 3 days, 3 men died after being held on Rikers Island. Here’s what we know about them. Antonio Bradley, 28, was hanging in a Bronx courthouse cell for several mins before jail officers noticed him. He was brain dead & died in a hospital June 18: https://t.co/FrG19DxmVz
— Jan Ransom (@Jan_Ransom) June 22, 2022

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the only “pre-existing condition” that is relevant is that Rikers is a torture chamber, DOC failed to take care of people forced into their care by prosecutors & courts, and the inherent violence of incarceration. https://t.co/ASqITbeyj6
— wongisms (@justwongisms) June 23, 2022

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Many people are aware that incarcerated people are forced to work at subminimum wage, but uh a lot of them are forced to work for no money at all, which sounds a lot like…https://t.co/bf4oMvPM9M
— s. e. smith (@sesmith) June 20, 2022

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In the same 24 hours, scotus made abortion illegal in half the country and the Senate of the largest, most “progressive” state in the Union confirmed that yes, they would like to keep prison slavery in place. That’s sitting heavy with me today. #ACA3 #RoeVsWade #EndTheException pic.twitter.com/vXBjVeayPC
— Abolition is Not a Metaphor (@RoshanBliss) June 25, 2022

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The 13th Amendment didn’t completely abolish slavery & purposely excludes incarcerated individuals. A new ACLU report explores the use of prison labor across the U.S. & how prisoners make little to nothing for their work while incarcerated! Full report: https://t.co/QKdnMlyNba pic.twitter.com/GbHbl2xAHX
— ACLU of Nevada (@ACLUNV) June 27, 2022

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June 20, 2022 by V Leigh

US prison workers produce $11 billion worth of goods and services for “little to no pay at all”

US has a quarter of China’s population, but more people jailed by a half million.

US has more people caged just *pretrial*, presumed innocent (500,000) than everyone imprisoned in India.

“American exceptionalism.”https://t.co/dz4qFCqCVt
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) April 17, 2022

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3 years ago today my heart was ripped out of my chest and it’ll never be the same. https://t.co/NRGuB1vfns
— Melania Brown (@melaniabrown11) June 7, 2022

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With Juneteenth approaching, it’s a good time to discuss change. It’s not hyperbole to say the prison industrial complex is modern day slavery. The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude EXCEPT for those convicted of a crime. It’s time to end the exception https://t.co/wDFC3tBxTr
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) June 16, 2022

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under the 13th amendment, slavery is legal as punishment for a crime. the prison industrial complex is one of the “innovations” of capitalism. it’s a part of the market. law enforcement does not prevent crime, it punishes it. with literal slavery. our taxes fund these atrocities. https://t.co/PjbzseKp4W
— trans rights are human rights (@KarlGerm) June 17, 2022

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March 1, 2022 by V Leigh

The cruelty is the point, the prison industrial complex is made to exploit the poor

The cruelty is the point, the prison industrial complex is made to exploit the poor https://t.co/O0gXhrM7cN
— Shaunrade (@BetterWorld86) February 24, 2022

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The number of incarcerated women was over 7X higher in 2019 than in 1980.

Research on female incarceration is critical to understanding the full consequences of mass incarceration and to unraveling the policies that lead to their criminalization. https://t.co/pCHksSxX4O
— The Sentencing Project (@SentencingProj) February 8, 2022

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Few are familiar with the prison industry and fewer know the extent of its greed. This invisibility has protected it and its exploitative practices. That ends now. A year delayed due to COVID-19, today my TED Talk is out!

Thank you @TEDTalks @TEDFellow https://t.co/RGKXrZpx0l
— Bianca (@BiancaTylek) May 24, 2021

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The NYTimes putting out the same tired coppaganda just replacing chain stores with “small businesses”. They never miss an opportunity to shill for the prison industrial complex. https://t.co/DjuCJpqAjW
— Party like it’s 1347 (@ExpectingWords) February 28, 2022

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January 29, 2022 by V Leigh

The goal of the system is to oppress…

“The goal of the system is to oppress… There are better, more cost-effective, less racist ways to get to health and safety. That’s what want. And we’re doing it all wrong.”@ScottHech explains how being a public defender turned him into an abolitionisthttps://t.co/gY3pATipvM pic.twitter.com/Le8WQwSNw1
— AWKWORD (@AWKWORDrap) December 9, 2021

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Our organization has always advocated against over-incarceration.

But what #COVID19 uncovered is: our country’s obsession with locking people up in jails and prisons as a first response to everything is NOT a solution–it actually endangers us all.
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— Alliance for Safety and Justice (@SafeandJustUSA) April 9, 2020

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Today I’m filming a segment for a brilliant documentary on Rikers Island penitentiary.

🚨 The cost of incarceration there is a staggering $556,539 per year PER PERSON, or $1,525 a day. CRAZY!!

Tuition, room, and board at HARVARD is $75,891.

You get what you invest in.
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 28, 2022

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I live across the street from this Days Inn and, unless someone’s learned something I haven’t, I don’t have the faintest idea what juvenile incarceration laws have to do with what happened. It’s beyond shameful to use a woman’s death to propagate unrelated—and harmful—policy https://t.co/OybdpwxPwr
— Elyssa Feder (@elyssafeder) January 27, 2022

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“Biden’s visit…is an opportunity for this nation’s leader to witness firsthand the horrendous conditions NYers endure each day on Rikers Island — conditions that should serve as a reminder of why incarceration is not a panacea for public safety concerns.”https://t.co/F4GGGAXQf3
— The Legal Aid Society (@LegalAidNYC) January 28, 2022

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December 18, 2021 by V Leigh

New year, new annual report! from The Bail Project

70% of people in jail are there for one reason: living in poverty.

Low-income Americans are sitting in jails for days, months, and even years simply because they can’t afford to pay high bail amounts.

And the bail industry is raking in billions. pic.twitter.com/AqlPkD7KxQ
— Brave New Films (@bravenewfilms) December 6, 2021

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As you read these words, there are 400,000 human beings in cages separated from their families solely because they cannot pay cash bail, and the U.S. and the Philippines are the only two countries in the world that allow a for-profit cash bail industry.
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) December 6, 2021

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End cash bail.

“Three people were out on bond following an investigation that alleged insurance fraud, credit card fraud and prostitution at a well-known Des Moines bail bond service.”https://t.co/Pr2t1Fsv4y
— Jill Lehmann (@justiceseeker78) December 17, 2021

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New year, new annual report! 👏 Hear from our clients, have a look at our financials, our plans for the future, and more.
Read it here: https://t.co/fuRzGujIsE pic.twitter.com/nxHIuEbG3o
— The Bail Project (@bailproject) December 13, 2021

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December 11, 2020 by V Leigh

Mass Incarceration: This is a moral outrage

In New York, Black people are 5 times more likely than whites to be incarcerated for technical violations.

That’s incarceration for noncriminal behaviors that violate (often onerous and overly burdensome) probation/parole rules. https://t.co/1kOHNd4NCs
— Prison Policy Init. (@PrisonPolicy) September 15, 2020

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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.

New Report: https://t.co/lY6YAAh0zW pic.twitter.com/4IvVEedhaS
— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) September 29, 2020

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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”

This is a moral outrage. https://t.co/rJMEpSxSsj
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) November 16, 2020

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New Orleans voters just elected a district attorney who has committed to ending mass incarceration.

Local elections matter. https://t.co/bksYgf6xTN
— ACLU (@ACLU) December 6, 2020

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Defund the police isn’t just a slogan.

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.
— Max Berger (@maxberger) December 2, 2020

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August 12, 2020 by V Leigh

“The rot from slavery and its aftermath are still with us, in a thousand different ways.”

A Black man will spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing hedge clippers after the Louisiana Supreme Court denied his request to have his sentence overturned last week. https://t.co/IuVmbNSjd8
— CNN (@CNN) August 6, 2020

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The Louisiana Supreme Court denied a request to review a LIFE sentence issued to a Black man convicted of trying to steal hedge clippers from a storage room in 1997. Chief Justice Bernette Johnson, the court’s lone Black justice, was the sole dissent. https://t.co/YVpQkFBP7D
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) August 4, 2020

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Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson: A life sentence for a failed attempt to steal hedge clippers is a “modern manifestation” of the “Pig Laws designed to re-enslave African Americans.” https://t.co/L4GYMz4G2R
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 7, 2020

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“The rot from slavery and its aftermath are still with us, in a thousand different ways.” @JoyAnnReid discussing Louisiana Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the prison sentence of a Black man who is serving life for stealing hedge clippers in 1997. https://t.co/Wa6mkTll4u
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) August 8, 2020

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The Louisiana Supreme Court refused to review the life sentence imposed on a man for attempted theft of hedge clippers. The court’s only Black justice dissented and identified this as a harsh legacy of racially-biased punishment. https://t.co/zMGbwqFMTC
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) August 7, 2020

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“If he lives another 20 years, Louisiana taxpayers will have paid almost one million dollars to punish Mr. Bryant for his failed effort to steal a set of hedge clippers,” wrote the sole dissenter in the court’s decision.https://t.co/ffTLXdB9cF
— NPR (@NPR) August 7, 2020

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August 2, 2020 by V Leigh

While we protest against police violence, let us also protest for those who die in custody

Some background: Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the *world.* Within that, black people are locked up at much higher rates. pic.twitter.com/Wcc85JCOwM
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) May 19, 2017

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While we protest against police violence, let us also protest for those who die in custody because of negligence and indifference. https://t.co/9v7cfFUBT6
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) June 15, 2020

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Our client Carl Stephens was convicted in 1993 of possessing cocaine residue & stealing cigarettes – acts for which he received a 50-year sentence without the possibility of parole. On Wednesday, after 26 years of imprisonment, he walked free. Happy Liberation Day Mr. Stephens! pic.twitter.com/OMN8XRILcR
— Southern Center for Human Rights (@southerncenter) June 19, 2020

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Tucson Police in Turmoil After Death of Latino Man in Custody – The New York Times https://t.co/wFuJ73ECtD
— glenn robinson (@glncv) June 25, 2020

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May 9, 2020 by V Leigh

Covid-19 and Jail Populations

Because of COVID-19, convictions for nonviolent drug offenses are turning into death sentences. We need to quickly move those who pose no safety risk from our jails and prisons to community supervision. Lives depend on it.https://t.co/RqY4aXv0mw
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) April 29, 2020

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BREAKING: Another person incarcerated on Rikers Island has died of Covid-19.

This brings to 4 the number of people who have died of coronavirus, while incarcerated in NYC jails.

The death happened on Wednesday night and the person’s identity has not been released by DOC.
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 26, 2020

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On April 7, Ohio reported just 14 cases of COVID-19 in its prison system.

By April 19, there were 2,400 cases. Six incarcerated people and one guard had died.

More than 3/4 of the 2,500 people incarcerated at Marion County Prison were infected.

MDOC needs to start testing now.
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 26, 2020

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71% of the prison population – a staggering 1,828 people – at Marion County Correctional Facility in Ohio have tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus.

109 correctional staff have also tested positive and one has died. https://t.co/xH9Cn0XOED
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 20, 2020

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Almost a year ago, Louisiana’s pardon board recommended that Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams, who is 74 and has been in prison almost 50 years, be granted clemency and released from prison. But the governor hasn’t acted.

Now she is in hospital with COVID-19https://t.co/H08f5mC6OF
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 24, 2020

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What’s it like to live & work in the epicenter of one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country? We talked with a dozen people detained or working inside Cook County Jail. They shared stories of terror and confusion, spreading alongside the virus. https://t.co/kH1L7us27g
— Shannon Heffernan (@shannon_h) April 30, 2020

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My first piece for @theappeal! I wrote about how this pandemic is the first time that Cook County Jail inmates’ voices are actually standing a chance to be heard over the whir of Sheriff Tom Dart’s PR machine. https://t.co/NLXoGKPWR0
— Maya Dukmasova (@mdoukmas) April 28, 2020

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Social distancing isn’t enough to prevent massive loss of life from COVID-19.

Our model shows that reducing jail populations is critical to saving nearly 100,000 lives — inside of jail AND in surrounding communities. https://t.co/ELV6Nh2FtY
— ACLU (@ACLU) April 25, 2020

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27 years. 27 years for possessing cocaine in his apartment which happened to be near a junior college. That already outrageous sentence just turned into a death sentence. https://t.co/Y0Y3HKy0T0
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) May 3, 2020

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Top 10 Coronavirus clusters in the US? Prisons, meat packing plants, a Navy battleship. Next 10? Prisons, meat packing plants, nursing homes. Next 10? And the 10 after that? Prisons, meat packing plants and nursing homes…. https://t.co/vdXEqlVymY
— Gina Neff (@ginasue) April 30, 2020

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March 3, 2020 by V Leigh

Harvard University “continues to benefit from its historical ties to slavery through its investments in the prison-industrial complex.”

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/yiWu2Eeid2

—
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

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