April 12, 2019 by V Leigh

We are creating a whole generation of children who will remember what we did.

*Newly released evidence* confirms Border Patrol acted in retaliation when, hours after we released our report documenting their routine obstruction of humanitarian aid, BP raided our space and arrested Scott. From @pmingram. See THREAD for highlights https://t.co/QAE9jA63YV

— No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths) March 22, 2019

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A 40-year-old Mexican immigrant died in U.S. custody — the fourth death in recent months – BuzzFeed News https://t.co/TkpdF3DLCj

— glenn robinson (@glncv) March 19, 2019

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It’s pretty hard to view the indefinite detention of a 5-year old as anything other than inhumane. We are long past due for Congressional hearings to expose the full scope of this administration’s abuses. We must put an end to these concentration camps. https://t.co/duM4dpm6Bv

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 14, 2019

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BREAKING: Today, we filed a complaint w/DHS on behalf of families at Karnes.

They've been detained for 41-58 days. Kids are supposed to be held for 20 days MAX.

Their detention is completely illegal. They must be released immediately. #StoriesFromKarnes https://t.co/PLYSLMGTHP

— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) March 13, 2019

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Trump told border agents to break U.S. law and defy judicial orders https://t.co/Mq2yyX42Mo pic.twitter.com/AYi6B4lNMz

— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) April 8, 2019

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Even the people who work for Trump understand that the cruelty is the point https://t.co/W09sSfbt2p pic.twitter.com/nsCDJjKa9r

— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 8, 2019

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TRUMP: "This is our new statement- the system is full. We can't take you anymore. Whether it's asylum or anything you want – illegal immigration – we can't take you anymore. Our country is full. Our area is full. The sector is full. Can't take you anymore, I'm sorry. Turn around" pic.twitter.com/W1Bjnnf7UR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 5, 2019

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We are creating a whole generation of children who will remember what we did. They will remember we caged them like animals, ripped them away from their parents & pumped them with drugs to make them stop crying. No amount of apologies will make it better. https://t.co/DS6kl6RoPl

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) April 6, 2019

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April 11, 2019 by V Leigh

Hate is everywhere and we cannot turn a blind eye. We can’t let this keep happening.

"If the cops take hate crime seriously and work with the community, it can show those communities that they care about them, and that they really exist to protect them." — SPLC's Heidi Beirich https://t.co/rsElLNjyUT

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) March 25, 2019

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A California mosque was set ablaze in "clear homage" to the New Zealand terrorist attack https://t.co/MXY97QM1Hm

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 25, 2019

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Hate is everywhere and we cannot turn a blind eye. We can’t let this keep happening. https://t.co/ONiiAwsTgL

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) March 20, 2019

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A man who participated in the beating of DeAndre Harris, an African-American man, after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, has been identified as Alek Rhyne Hyer, 36, of Gainesville, Florida.

He has not yet been charged. https://t.co/cF20UGGMQL

— Hatewatch (@Hatewatch) March 19, 2019

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Man arrested for allegedly threatening worshipers at Phoenix mosque https://t.co/oJrxkZkjnr pic.twitter.com/9BTMFfc4jJ

— The Hill (@thehill) March 18, 2019

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A man who participated in the beating of DeAndre Harris, an African-American man, after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, has been identified as Alek Rhyne Hyer, 36, of Gainesville, Florida.

He has not yet been charged. https://t.co/cF20UGGMQL

— Hatewatch (@Hatewatch) March 19, 2019

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3 historically Black churches were burned down in the same parish within 10 days pic.twitter.com/dVhpfrh5Vr

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 6, 2019

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A New York man has been charged with threatening to assault and kill Rep. Ilhan Omar because of her Muslim faith, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit https://t.co/jblVHkRU2N pic.twitter.com/oj7N3GtL9F

— CNN International (@cnni) April 6, 2019

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April 6, 2019 by V Leigh

Shows just how systematic abuses and suicides are in jails, with little accountability or visibility

Florida clears two men after 42 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit https://t.co/BF3FF9a4rA pic.twitter.com/mjDapYbqdL

— CNN (@CNN) March 29, 2019

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What a case, what a story: our new @theappeal story this week shows just how systematic abuses and suicides are in jails, with little accountability or visibility for them: https://t.co/9V0udcGyrU https://t.co/j0xv3tcHdB

— Taniel (@Taniel) March 23, 2019

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A federal prisons official used prison labor for work on his church in Texas. Prisoners were paid 49 cents per hour plus an overall $30 bonus for a total of five eight hour work days at the church. The state’s minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. https://t.co/JvbN4Dyg6r

— nyc law grrrl (@nyclawgrrrl) March 12, 2019

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Repeat: Kalief Browder was locked up *pretrial* on $3500 bail he couldn’t afford for stealing a backpack *for longer than Manafort will now serve in prison* including time he already has in. Kalief was innocent. He later committed suicide. https://t.co/vE82ro6u1X

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) March 8, 2019

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It costs the US $38 million per day or $160 billion per year to detain people pre-trial.

— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 1, 2019

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Approximately 68% of people held in jail prior to trial are charged with non-violent crimes, such as drug, property, or public order crimes. Even crimes defined as violent, such as burglary, may not involve any actual use of violence.

— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 1, 2019

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Cash bail sets up a two-tier justice system – one for the rich & one for the poor. While some presidential candidates have proposed ending cash bail, The Justice Collaborative's End Money Bail Act represents so much more than people have imagined possible. https://t.co/D7JZ0y5FKi

— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 1, 2019

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April 5, 2019 by V Leigh

They could not “report it to the police because it was the police.”

Jerome Johnson served 30 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Now, in a federal civil rights lawsuit, he claims the Baltimore police framed him & that he's not the only victim of a police department with a "win at all costs" approach to policing. https://t.co/Mi0Q8h6dKl

— The Appeal (@theappeal) April 2, 2019

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A SWAT team kicked in Jean & Verlande Regisa's apartment door last November, handcuffed them & their 15-year-old daughter & held them at gunpoint, while their younger children looked on. But police had the wrong apartment & now the Regisas are suing. https://t.co/tSVOHvguUC

— The Appeal (@theappeal) March 25, 2019

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Baton Rouge police officers brutally beat Steven Wayne in the courtyard of his apartment building, even after they handcuffed him & he was lying limp on the pavement. When people yelled at them to stop the assault, they arrested them too. https://t.co/4yfIovGijL

— The Appeal (@theappeal) March 23, 2019

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Chicago paid more for police misconduct settlements last year than any year since at least 2011, bringing the total tab to well over half a billion dollars in just eight years. via @ChicagoReporter https://t.co/RA6EKtEgy7

— ProPublica Illinois (@ProPublicaIL) March 22, 2019

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Officer violently arrests 12-yr-old boy for selling his CDs at a Georgia mall.

The roughness is absurd. He’s literally a child.
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— Simran Jeet Singh (@SikhProf) March 7, 2019

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Without any warrants or permission, Georgia police entered a house party and detained every person inside for marijuana possession.

Now people are suing after enduring days of mistreatment in jail and even losing their jobs due to the mass arrest. https://t.co/usgUuJoLYQ

— Real Justice (@RealJusticePAC) March 13, 2019

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North Georgia detention officer arrested on rape charges and police say the scratch marks you see in his mug shot are from the victim fighting back. https://t.co/obHifrjTWx pic.twitter.com/W4U0KPJx5o

— Tom Regan (@tomreganWSB) March 12, 2019

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Another cop aquitted. https://t.co/HiMdDFhFHR

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) March 31, 2019

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This is a very true representation of the abuse of power by law enforcement. There are thousands of these cases all across the country.

I once asked a former cop about why he never blew the whistle. Said he didn't want to get killed by his former colleagues. https://t.co/hO9AiCLRgc

— Zakir Khan (@Muzzakh) March 29, 2019

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Seven months have passed since a Columbus police officer shot and killed a young mother during a prostitution arrest.

Now it’s been revealed that as a landlord, he is under investigation for coercing his tenants into trading sex for the rent. https://t.co/UQ8KoDbQgl

— Real Justice (@RealJusticePAC) April 5, 2019

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Police officer Andrew Mitchell was just indicted on federal charges of raping & kidnapping women. When asked why they had not reported the incidents, the women consistently responded that they could not “report it to the police because it was the police.” https://t.co/fASQ95TAk1

— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) March 29, 2019

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April 3, 2019 by V Leigh

They keep coming.

A Nashville police officer faces homicide charges in the fatal shooting of Daniel Hambrick, who he shot twice in the back and once in the head in July 2018. A local police union just launched a website portraying Hambrick as "dangerous convicted felon." https://t.co/uWt1Zj4OoD

— Ethan Brown (@ethanbrown72) February 19, 2019

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ICE agent shoots and kills man sitting in his own car in a Wal-Mart parking lot.https://t.co/8j0oF49pn7

— Nick Encalada-Malinowski (@nwmalinowski) February 23, 2019

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A jury has awarded $5.1 million to the family of Gary Smith who was shot & killed by Chicago police officer Arkadiusz Pachnik, finding that Smith had his hands up when Pachnik shot him, was unarmed & that Pachnik likely planted a gun at the scene. https://t.co/iVsgwdgYyq

— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) March 24, 2019

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In December, Ricardo Treviño III, 21, was unarmed and parked in a ditch when he was shot to death by San Benito police officers. “I’ve never seen a more preventable killing," said a family attorney. Now, his family is calling for the chief's resignation. https://t.co/K4borxsy0V

— Ethan Brown (@ethanbrown72) March 11, 2019

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They keep coming. Another decision where another cop walks free after killing an unarmed mentally ill Black man from Brooklyn. #RIPSaheed We will keep fighting. https://t.co/YW0MhBywmf

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) March 31, 2019

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Vallejo Police Release Body Camera Video in Deadly Shooting of Willie McCoy.
"Nothing in that video warranted those officers shooting Willie McCoy dozens of times.”
-John Burris, McCoy's Family Attorney. #WillieMcCoy #Vallejo https://t.co/OkJos2WK6a

— Shomari Stone (@shomaristone) March 31, 2019

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March 31, 2019 by V Leigh

Hateful Politics in the US

Officials will no longer be required to publicly disclose the number of civilians killed in airstrikes against terrorist targets due to a new executive order from President Trump https://t.co/Nro7QwzoIo pic.twitter.com/B0t8XU7R9e

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 6, 2019

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NEW: Tonia Gordon has turned herself in to the Bladen County Sheriff’s Department. She is the third arrest of the NC election fraud investigation. Two others still wanted #NC09 @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/4SSUsKZcGV

— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) March 6, 2019

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Here's @TheEconomist admitting to its readers that Trump and Guidó's plan is to starve Venezuela into accepting them as their masters. https://t.co/AnoYFWb06c pic.twitter.com/I1qNCiqUkd

— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) March 3, 2019

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Steve King. Ted Cruz. Marsha Blackburn. They're just 3 of a number of candidates with open white supremacist, nativist, anti-LGBTQ+ or antigovernment ties who won seats in the U.S. House and Senate during the 2018 midterms. #YearInHate #RageAgainstChange https://t.co/Pji3vlC5S1

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) February 23, 2019

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Families are still being separated. https://t.co/Vca1v1Jfcz

— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) March 10, 2019

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Pres. Trump opened the White House to extremism by consulting with hate groups & enabling the infiltration of extremist ideas into the administration's agenda. We tracked instances of extremism in the Trump administration. #YearInHate #RageAgainstChange https://t.co/fBQKa69TJ0

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) March 14, 2019

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March 28, 2019 by V Leigh

If you haven’t seen it yet

If you haven’t seen it yet, you must read this entire @nytopinion series on the criminalization of pregnant women and its connections to #abortionrights, #FosterCare, #racism, #ReproJustice, #BirthJustice. What some of us have been saying for decades. https://t.co/O38jOEWJ1A

— Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) December 31, 2018

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We track male supremacy, a hateful ideology advocating for the subjugation of women. https://t.co/mGx31AfoLM

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) December 30, 2018

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March 23, 2019 by V Leigh

We gave every state’s parole system a letter grade. Most states failed.

NEW 50-state analysis: We gave every state’s parole system a letter grade. Most states failed.

Why investigate the parole process? Because, to incarcerated people, it can mean the difference between hope and despair. It deserves more of our attention.https://t.co/tImwSZb2Cw

— Prison Policy Init. (@PrisonPolicy) February 26, 2019

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Louisiana Insurance Commissioner James Donelon says that bail bondsmen in the state have been overcharging clients and must start issuing refunds. Donelon estimates that refunds could go to approximately 50,000 clients at a cost of nearly $6 million. https://t.co/CtlCW8m2pF

— The Appeal (@theappeal) February 21, 2019

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Needed: A tech upgrade and an end to overdetention in the Louisiana Department of Corrections. “Every week over the last decade, prison staff found at least one person who had been kept in jail or prison longer than their sentence required.” https://t.co/QKVomTVTKv

— The Appeal (@theappeal) February 26, 2019

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Repeat: Kalief Browder was locked up *pretrial* on $3500 bail he couldn’t afford for stealing a backpack *for longer than Manafort will now serve in prison* including time he already has in. Kalief was innocent. He later committed suicide. https://t.co/vE82ro6u1X

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) March 8, 2019

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Former Milwaukee County corrections officer James Lee Ramsey-Guy was sentenced to 30 days in prison in the dehydration death of Terrill Thomas, 36, at the jail. In 2016, Ramsey-Guy, who worked under Sheriff David Clarke, shut off the water in Thomas' cell. https://t.co/zF7PQDdtlK

— The Appeal (@theappeal) March 8, 2019

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Paul Manafort is a rich white man who stole millions, tampered witnesses & undermined US democracy. He got 4 years in prison.

Crystal Mason is a black woman who mistakenly cast a ballot in a local election. She got 5 YEARS.

Never tell me there is equal justice in this country. pic.twitter.com/7pHUxny6ig

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 8, 2019

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March 15, 2019 by V Leigh

New Zealand Terrorist Attack

At least 49 Muslim worshippers were murdered in an act of anti-Muslim violence today. Our hearts go out to the families of victims killed at Linwood Mosque & Al Noor Mosque in #ChristchurchAttack in #NewZealand. https://t.co/lIAd2QnI29

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) March 15, 2019

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Various communities people of #NewZealand showing their support outside mosque to those who lost their lives in a terrorist attack 😭😭😢😢.. #christchurch #NewZealandTerroristAttack pic.twitter.com/9UCW5zoDYe

— Umar Jamshaid (@UmarJamshaid786) March 15, 2019

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Vigils around #BayArea remember #Christchurch mosque shooting victims https://t.co/fLmH4703HK #NewZealandTerroristAttack pic.twitter.com/MsDVrtfiQV

— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) March 15, 2019

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There was no creeping threat, no public debate: New Zealand’s terror-risk level went from a perceived zero to an unequivocal high. #NewZealandTerroristAttack https://t.co/V6gja7VyRT

— Gokhan Mahnov (@GMahnov) March 15, 2019

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'Hello, brother': Muslim worshipper's 'last words' to gunman #NewZealandTerroristAttack https://t.co/uC1KYpxwYv

— Mohammad Saber Yaqin (@YaqinSaber) March 15, 2019

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March 13, 2019 by V Leigh

White supremacy starts with indifference, and builds upon that with racism, discrimination and violence, slowly normalizing these behaviors and systems.

Here's what we do know about hate crimes:

We know that hate crimes are severely underreported – and yet, the Dept. of Justice still estimates there are an average of 250,000 victims a year.

A statement from SPLC's Heidi Beirich.https://t.co/f6NZ9XaQxD

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) February 26, 2019

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"Nativists, racists & our president are taking advantage of the browning of America, contrasting it with nostalgia for a perceived better, whiter past & using that idea to activate citizens into white nationalist thinking."—SPLC's Heidi Beirich #YearInHate https://t.co/NDVjNrpWrW

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) February 26, 2019

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This year, @splcenter counted 1,020 hate groups in the U.S.—“the most the SPLC has ever counted,” according to the project's director. https://t.co/LGA1rW73Y4

— PEN America (@PENamerican) February 21, 2019

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Reporters @ACInvestigates and @awinston have been writing about white supremacy in the military if you want to learn more: https://t.co/tfzWtGIJbf

Have you encountered white supremacists or neo-Nazis in the military? Please tell us: https://t.co/gMpbu1hp5c https://t.co/n8vSRAcsy5

— ProPublica (@ProPublica) February 20, 2019

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Opposing racism is not the same as building an antiracist society.

Our new series, #AntiracismAndAmerica, a collaboration between @AntiracismCtr & @GuardianUS, looks at the structures that sustain a racist society – and how we dismantle them. https://t.co/OBMfW4Q2XR

— Christopher Petrella (@CFPetrella) December 6, 2018

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At least 128 trans people were killed in 87 cities across 32 states in the last five years.

80% were people of color. https://t.co/Y6m2pzUkWv

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) January 26, 2019

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Oppression Monitor Daily

A Community Village Site

We are creating a whole generation of children who will remember what we did.

Hate is everywhere and we cannot turn a blind eye. We can’t let this keep happening.

Shows just how systematic abuses and suicides are in jails, with little accountability or visibility

They could not “report it to the police because it was the police.”

They keep coming.

Hateful Politics in the US

If you haven’t seen it yet

We gave every state’s parole system a letter grade. Most states failed.

New Zealand Terrorist Attack

White supremacy starts with indifference, and builds upon that with racism, discrimination and violence, slowly normalizing these behaviors and systems.