Prison Reform

#Politics #HateCrime #Discrimination Tweets 8.22
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#Politics #HateCrime #Discrimination Tweets 8.22

#PrisonReform #MassIncarceration Tweets 7.28
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#PrisonReform #MassIncarceration Tweets 7.28

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Horrific Excessive Force on #RachelGraham

Surveillance video shows the jailer, Rachel Graham, slamming a handcuffed Wells to the floor face first on July 2, 2011.  Wells has filed an excessive force federal lawsuit against Graham and is now talking about the incident.

“That is not the way to correct a person that is in handcuffs with no self-defense. I didn’t even have my hands to break the fall. It could have been a lot worse. At one point, I thought I was going to die,” said Wells.

She says she was left unconscious, bleeding with her teeth knocked out.  Moments before she was dropped to the ground, Wells was being booked for a DWI arrest.  Cameras inside the booking area of the jail capture Wells step over the red line, which she had been instructed to stand behind.  The jailer reacts by extending her leg and slamming Wells to the ground.

 

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#MassIncarceration #POTUS Tweets 7.17
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#MassIncarceration #POTUS Tweets 7.17

#SocialJustice Tweets 6.29
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#SocialJustice Tweets 6.29

#PoliceBrutality #DeadlyForce #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.25
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#PoliceBrutality #DeadlyForce #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.25

#MassIncarceration #NewJimCrow Tweets 6.16
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#MassIncarceration #NewJimCrow Tweets 6.16

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.11
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.11

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U.S. Addicted to Enslavement for Profit

by Vicky Pelaez

 

The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery? The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery? by Vicky Pelaez Human rights org…anizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells.

 

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