@TheTakeaway @lsarsour Meanwhile in Norway, inmates have their own apts etc. We r sooo far behind. Again. On sooo many issues…
— Gavin Macaulay (@macgavinjay) February 16, 2016
73% of private prisons are subsidized by taxpayers. https://t.co/fy3U3hJxz7 pic.twitter.com/DLCdBEqYg9
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) February 17, 2016
This man is serving life in prison for 3 oz of meth – more time than most get for manslaughter, rape. By @HRappleye: https://t.co/3ZGUeldoqt
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) November 9, 2015
Why are kids in the US, as young as 11, held in solitary? Help stop this now. Sign your name http://t.co/u20qYZz6U1
https://t.co/S8Jdvd0FDW
— Fusion (@ThisIsFusion) September 29, 2015
Who Watches Inmate Executions in the U.S.? http://t.co/H0PjaT9EJq
— PrisonReformMovement (@PrisonReformMvt) September 29, 2015
NYC Bar Association Urges Reduction of #MassIncarceration in Report #FreeAmerica @acholcomb @LetsFreeAmerica http://t.co/wCJo3gZMQs
— Slingblade (@cbisp) September 30, 2015
#AlbertWoodfox had his convictions overturned TWICE … yet has Not been freed after 43 YRS in Solitary Confinement – http://t.co/BTSoiPA8Mr
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) October 1, 2015
.@blacksnob shares why it’s time to end practice of putting juveniles in solitary confinement http://t.co/r4hRnyk79M pic.twitter.com/1Twlr0Jinc
— The Root (@TheRoot) October 1, 2015
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
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
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
We could eliminate tuition at every public college and university in America with the $80 billion we spend each year on incarcerations.
— President Obama (@POTUS) July 14, 2015
Mass incarceration doesn't work. Let's build communities that give kids a shot at success and prisons that prepare people for a 2nd chance.
— President Obama (@POTUS) July 14, 2015
“Mass incarceration makes our country worse off and we need to do something about it.” — Obama, speaking at the NAACP
— Zeeshan Aleem (@ZeeshanAleem) July 14, 2015
President Obama outlines case for overhauling criminal justice system in NAACP speech. http://t.co/nsw82tEvoy. pic.twitter.com/XZmsfoNhlG
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 14, 2015
President Obama met with inmates and became the first president to visit a federal prison. https://t.co/VYh0dQ6ait pic.twitter.com/JeaYpk3WGp
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 16, 2015
Black man who can’t pay bail has spent 6 years behind bars — but hasn’t been convicted of anything http://t.co/5QC6zsyObw
— diane straub (@didikins4life) July 10, 2015
Predictive Policing (think Minority Report or The Avengers) comes to the NYPD.
For real.
http://t.co/Ee38zoaSvZ pic.twitter.com/WEc3GxyY0S
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) July 10, 2015
The three #corporations that dominate the #privateprison industry https://t.co/VyqugfghD3 by @_blip_ pic.twitter.com/XHvVc0mID1
— MuckRock (@MuckRock) July 9, 2015
This is #JonathanSanders
Was on this very farm when choked to death with a flashlight by Mississippi police. pic.twitter.com/s0BqqAR66L
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) July 10, 2015
Activists in Ferguson Broaden Scope, Unveil 'Power Behind the Police' http://t.co/UIcwgp4Njo
— deray mckesson (@deray) July 10, 2015
A Former Baltimore Cop Just Tweeted All the Horrible Shit He Saw on the Job http://t.co/Z4t5axSXCV pic.twitter.com/ZVOlQzn84K
— VICE (@VICE) June 24, 2015
@getgln Please inform the public: @ChicagoReporter video of police shooting at a car of unarmed black teens. http://t.co/jOTCh6HicM
— CommunityRenewalSoc (@CRSchicago) June 18, 2015
Man with towel-wrapped arm shot by LAPD in Los Feliz was unarmed http://t.co/KKbM1SipFY pic.twitter.com/Y2P2Tz94v0
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 20, 2015
The United States MUST reform its laws on the use of #deadlyforce by #police. http://t.co/40M8fLMDqr pic.twitter.com/pYFpVe3Nmw
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) June 21, 2015
RT @tweetvazquez: We haven't ended segregation, we just redesigned it. -Michelle Alexander #ACLULeads pic.twitter.com/XjrfekC1Ic
— NJJNetwork (@NJJNetwork) June 14, 2015
1 out of every 100 American adults are currently behind bars,basically are slaves – RT @bassem_masri ….. http://t.co/UrZBNc4uhc…
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) June 14, 2015
THOUSANDS of wrongfully incarcerated people have been released, but not ONE person has been held responsible for it. Ever.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 11, 2015
People In Prison Pay Millions To Call Loved Ones Every Year. Now This Company Wants Even More.
http://t.co/B5DORpmWR5
#PrisonDivest
— Advancement Project (@adv_project) June 13, 2015
Right now, as we speak, over 400 people have been in Riker's Island for OVER TWO YEARS, without ever being convicted
http://t.co/WeRErIlKsc
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 10, 2015
This is the New Jim Crow. https://t.co/MzNMYecd5h
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 9, 2015