March 4, 2025 by V Leigh

#BREAKING: 30 LA County probation officers face charges over ‘gladiator fights’ among youth at juvenile hall

#BREAKING: 30 LA County probation officers face charges over ‘gladiator fights’ among youth at juvenile hall https://t.co/91joBwBxXG
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) March 4, 2025

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12-18 years old in a cage. Forced to fight for the amusement of 30 probation officers. Turning kids into gladiators. Humiliated for sport. This is the system. This is how they treat our children.

If this happened in another country, the US would call it a human rights…
— Black Lives Matter (BLM) (@Blklivesmatter) March 4, 2025

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February 13, 2025 by V Leigh

Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison

Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison https://t.co/uSs0hHSH1m via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) January 8, 2025

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January 5, 2025 by V Leigh

California voters rejected Prop 6, preserving the “slavery loophole” for forced prison labor. Though rooted in racism, this practice reflects broader beliefs about punishment and penitence. It’s time to confront these entrenched injustices.prison labor

California voters rejected Prop 6, preserving the “slavery loophole” for forced prison labor. Though rooted in racism, this practice reflects broader beliefs about punishment and penitence. It’s time to confront these entrenched injustices. https://t.co/bsxEoZDw68
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) December 25, 2024

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Ruthless Prison Guards Who Beat Handcuffed Black Man To Death Avoid Arrests https://t.co/F5U1ThkmVG via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) December 31, 2024

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NYC jail staff blocked medics from treating 23-year-old woman who died weeks later https://t.co/20Ry2zfSKO
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 1, 2025

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Her name is not 23-year-old woman. Her name is Charizma Jones. She is a Black woman that died in a NYC jail due to intentional malpractice by correction officers aka terrorists. #SayHerName

Eric Adams is a POS btw https://t.co/2TUMqE7nvG
— Jason (U mad) (@EmperorTChalla) January 1, 2025

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December 24, 2024 by V Leigh

This is what prison abolitionists have been trying to tell us. Prisons don’t exist to lock up “bad people,” they exist to lock YOU up as soon as you realize how dangerous the system is and try to resist it. Police budgets are rising along with inequality, it’s not a coincidence

Robert Roberson case puts Texas death row in the spotlight – United States Hypocrisy https://t.co/dLKbjU9Xac
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) December 21, 2024

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This is what prison abolitionists have been trying to tell us. Prisons don’t exist to lock up “bad people,” they exist to lock YOU up as soon as you realize how dangerous the system is and try to resist it. Police budgets are rising along with inequality, it’s not a coincidence https://t.co/NFYk5mt3BF
— Hilary Agro 🍄 (over on Blsky) (@hilaryagro) December 13, 2024

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BREAKING: President Joe Biden announced he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. https://t.co/6aoz0MJtsw
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 23, 2024

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August 15, 2024 by V Leigh

EXCLUSIVE: Investigation finds “ASTRONOMICAL” death rate in Maricopa County jails. With 43 deaths in 2022 and 43 in 2023, they are among the deadliest jails in the country. But you wouldn’t know that, because the deaths were underreported — until now.

EXCLUSIVE: Investigation finds “ASTRONOMICAL” death rate in Maricopa County jails. With 43 deaths in 2022 and 43 in 2023, they are among the deadliest jails in the country. But you wouldn’t know that, because the deaths were underreported — until now. https://t.co/8xJ8eDmV1G
— Jimmy Jenkins (@JimmyJenkins) August 5, 2024

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BREAKING: President Joe Biden has signed a bill strengthening oversight of the federal prison system after an AP investigation exposed abuse and corruption. https://t.co/zgMYo4BpKl
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 25, 2024

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May 31, 2024 by V Leigh

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery”

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year.

A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery” https://t.co/KG8NB6OnEw
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 11, 2024

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“Community bail funds, which have served as an important mutual aid strategy for Black communities and racial justice activists, are now functionally illegal in Georgia” https://t.co/fcElfWpqMP
— #StopCopCity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@micahinATL) May 21, 2024

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Marilyn Mosby joins this week’s episode of @nativelandpod to discuss her transformative efforts in reducing prison populations and dismantling the national prison industrial complex that disproportionately affects Black and Brown communities. She shares insights on how these… pic.twitter.com/sDWgN1TzCR
— a. rye (@angela_rye) May 10, 2024

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April 24, 2024 by V Leigh

“People in solitary aren’t allowed to go to the prison library… we qualify for one book a week… the librarian always sends a Christian themed book. In 2018, I asked her, “Why don’t you give me what I request?” She said, “I’m called to save your heathen soul.””

“People in solitary aren’t allowed to go to the prison library… we qualify for one book a week… the librarian always sends a Christian themed book.

In 2018, I asked her, “Why don’t you give me what I request?” She said, “I’m called to save your heathen soul.”” https://t.co/XIAeWVL1qB
— jon ben-menachem (@jbenmenachem) April 4, 2024

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Louisiana passed a bill that would not allow anyone convicted of a crime after Aug 1, to ever qualify for parole.

The state with the largest prison population in the country made people convicted of a crime unable to ever get parole. https://t.co/HzBt1IZq6G
— TaLynn Kel – Aggressively Black Fat Cosplay Auntie (@TaLynnKel) March 7, 2024

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Our fight for a free Palestine is fundamentally connected with our values of dismantling the prison-industrial complex, fighting imperialism, and empowering working class people. https://t.co/Dxe0m27Uzi
— UncommittedNJ (@UncommittedNJ) April 12, 2024

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7 years ago, I wrote a small piece about a man who was falsely accused of a crime.

A few days later, I got an anonymous telling me to look up the woman they called “the evilest white woman on earth.”

What happened next is the absolute wildest story you’ll ever hear

A thread
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) April 18, 2024

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February 12, 2024 by V Leigh

The 13th Amendment allows incarcerated people to be used as free and forced labor. And now U.S. prison labor has morphed into a multibillion-dollar empire. Many of our clients have endured this reality while major corporations profited off of their work.

In Mississippi, women who are incarcerated are working at Popeye’s for less than minimum wage and even being “hired” out TO INDIVIDUALS to do housework, yardwork, etc.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME pic.twitter.com/xFzyrXKmsR
— Jerrick White (@BostonJerry) February 2, 2024

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The report ends with this anecdote. Reporters followed a van that took Black prisoners to a former slave plantation that’s now a tourist attraction w a hotel/restaurant.

They were there to work at the restaurant washing dishes.

Slave labor, on a plantation, in the 2020s. pic.twitter.com/W63Pjl7Rn5
— Jerrick White (@BostonJerry) February 2, 2024

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A two-year AP investigation found that goods linked to prison labor wind up in the supply chains of major food brands, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The practice has morphed into a massive multibillion-dollar empire. pic.twitter.com/j5QyV6NCBr
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 12, 2024

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The 13th Amendment allows incarcerated people to be used as free and forced labor. And now U.S. prison labor has morphed into a multibillion-dollar empire.

Many of our clients have endured this reality while major corporations profited off of their work.https://t.co/iOhgj7jnsJ
— Innocence Project (@innocence) February 9, 2024

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Louisiana is back in the news… for forced prison labor https://t.co/tTfGkJPErG
— Matthew Wollenweber (@MWollenweber) February 5, 2024

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February 4, 2024 by V Leigh

BREAKING! Ending prison slavery is about protecting our humanity and dignity, but a NEW REPORT found that it would also generate BILLIONS in benefits for workers, families, victims, and taxpayers annually.

Have you bought anything at Target, Walmart or Aldi?

Then there’s a chance you’ve eaten food products linked to prison labor in the U.S. — a hidden workforce tied to some of the world’s biggest companies. https://t.co/kgOxx4BM0K
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 29, 2024

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BREAKING! Ending prison slavery is about protecting our humanity and dignity, but a NEW REPORT found that it would also generate BILLIONS in benefits for workers, families, victims, and taxpayers annually.

Read the new report and take action at https://t.co/a4CdSe4wM7. pic.twitter.com/jhVV7ft8K6
— Worth Rises (@WorthRises) January 31, 2024

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SB 63 — which would criminalize bail funds in Georgia — passed the Senate today. The bill would make bailing more than 3 people out of jail per YEAR a crime for bail funds and nonprofits. It also increases the number of non-bail-eligible offenses. https://t.co/GT5hoSXpGU
— Hannah Riley (@hannahcrileyy) February 1, 2024

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GOLD DOME—The Georgia Senate just voted to expand cash bail and criminalize charitable bail funds.

The Georgia House of Representatives is expected to pass the bill Tuesday, after which it will head to Governor Brian Kemp’s desk for his signature.https://t.co/XZKorKA1Hl
— Atlanta Community Press Collective (@atlanta_press) February 1, 2024

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November 7, 2023 by V Leigh

‘Prisons were never designed to be nursing homes’ — Approx $16 billion of taxpayer money is spent each year keeping individuals 50 years and older in prisons that put their health at risk

Jailed Man Loses Arms Due To Medical Neglect From Staff https://t.co/LaixCxiZwI via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) October 18, 2023

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Must-Watch: @LastWeekTonight takes on the terrible healthcare provided in prisons and jails. Among the responses John Oliver pushes are releasing people, particularly older adults, and guaranteeing universal health care for all in this country. https://t.co/tjxaCB0ICw
— Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (@RAPPcampaign) October 22, 2023

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New from @prisonjourn: A searing look at the mental health crisis in U.S. jails and prisons, told from inside the Washington State Penitentiary.https://t.co/hHklKSvZSA
— Public Health Watch (@pubhealthwatch) October 26, 2023

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‘Prisons were never designed to be nursing homes’ — Approx $16 billion of taxpayer money is spent each year keeping individuals 50 years and older in prisons that put their health at risk

(with @reform, @galaxy_gives, @RAPPcampaign, @hamzasaldana614, @brennancenter + @lbeisen) pic.twitter.com/wcJfN1ktHW
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) October 26, 2023

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