January 8, 2018 by V Leigh

99 Percent of Students Handcuffed in #NYC Schools Were Black Or Latino

Gary Merchant swallowed razor blade to get medical care in an Idaho prison. Prison health care contractor, Corizon Health, finally took him to the hospital where his leg had to be amputated because a flesh-eating infection had been left untreated. https://t.co/dBqpOcW7PS

— pdx law grrrl (@pdxlawgrrrl) December 27, 2017

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1 in 10 adults in Florida are permanently banned from voting because of a prior conviction; that's 1.6 million people https://t.co/liJ09ifeJK https://t.co/t3WeEE2hfL

— 🎄merry🎀hombres🎄 (@merryhombres) December 21, 2017

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Being denied the right to vote even after completing a criminal sentence is another cruel construct of our criminal justice system. We must #RestoreTheVote in Florida. https://t.co/EFLEAzIDCh #flapol #njpol

— LWV of the US (@LWV) December 16, 2017

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Most people jailed in NC pretrial are there because they can't afford bail, but it costs them $10 a day to sit in jail before they're even found guilty.
A group of Mecklenburg Co. judges are banding together to change how the courts impose fees & fines. https://t.co/OEVcuXEOug

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) December 26, 2017

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ICYMI:
Report: 99 Percent of Students Handcuffed in #NYC Schools Were Black Or Latino ………. https://t.co/V0Z5a5XgrA

— Sloppy Steve (@DcSlumdog) January 4, 2018

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September 3, 2017 by V Leigh

Police and Prisons

Oklahoma Police Chief discovered to be a Neo Nazi.https://t.co/PWfeGuKS8c

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 27, 2017

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Texas has the largest prison population of any state. 67% of those incarcerated are people of color. https://t.co/qHArGwKAna

— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) July 21, 2017

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SOUL SNATCHERS: How the NYPD's 42nd Precinct & the Bronx DA's Office conspire to destroy Black & Brown lives. https://t.co/EBUgzubKQA

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 21, 2017

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Autopsy shows #CharleenaLyles, pregnant mother of four was shot seven times by Seattle Police. #IntelGroup https://t.co/vmH8A1XRaN

— #BlackAugust (@Delo_Taylor) August 30, 2017

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GA police lieutenant moved to administrative duty for saying, "Remember, we only shoot black people" in traffic stop https://t.co/7nqFbxnLWe

— SPLC (@splcenter) August 31, 2017

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July 4, 2017 by V Leigh

Dehumanization, then criminalization, then incarceration, brutality or death.

Dehumanization, then criminalization, then incarceration, brutality or death. https://t.co/qBDYXsJhf0

— malkia a. cyril (@culturejedi) June 11, 2017

Protests erupt after police shoot, kill Tulsa man https://t.co/T5LOopb04P

— BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) June 11, 2017

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Half of the people in Louisiana jails haven’t even been convicted of any crime. https://t.co/TWM8BnfjKz

— SPLC (@splcenter) June 11, 2017

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The two-tiered justice system: money bail in historical perspective https://t.co/5tw4AiEF4c

— SPLC (@splcenter) June 7, 2017

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In the first 6 months of this year police shot and killed 492 people, almost the same as in previous years: https://t.co/LVOgfnbn4P

— Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) July 1, 2017

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These cops worked IA & believed in punishing bad cops so they've become targets. We must help them fight back! https://t.co/lS4t70ICMq

— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) June 29, 2017

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To be clear, #backtheblue only applies when they murder black people ✔️ https://t.co/Pk1XGhwSQ4

— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) July 1, 2017

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Here's how police use of force policies can help end police violence, by @samswey @mspackyetti @deray: https://t.co/3feRtfksTD

— Longitude/Latitude (@nomad_thought) June 24, 2017

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April 24, 2017 by V Leigh

#BlackLivesMatter Wants to Bail Out Memphis Moms for #MothersDay

Detainees Sue Private Prison for 'Forced Labor' ……… https://t.co/F4HkD1pULZ

— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) March 16, 2017

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Alabama city agrees it has been jailing people…for being poor. Pays them restitution for it. ESSENTIAL STORY. https://t.co/eOXedrVixY

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) March 17, 2017

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#BlackLivesMatter Wants to Bail Out Memphis Moms for #MothersDay https://t.co/WqbGl3xyNs

— favianna rodriguez (@favianna) April 21, 2017

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January 20, 2017 by V Leigh

Criminal records are keeping millions of men out of the workforce — and it’s hurting the economy

U.S. IMPRISONMENT RATE FALLS TO LOWEST SINCE 1997: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT………. https://t.co/RfgTFz2Ap9

— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) December 31, 2016

U.S. still incarcerates its citizens at much higher rates than almost any other country on earth https://t.co/pzOtRsy1zu by @DanielDenvir

— SPLC (@splcenter) January 11, 2017

Missouri bill could get rid of mandatory minimum sentences https://t.co/jpzASFfSZr

— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) January 5, 2017

Criminal records are keeping millions of men out of the workforce — and it’s hurting the economy https://t.co/2vwEclcorO

— SPLC (@splcenter) January 7, 2017

August 27, 2016 by V Leigh

Keeping people in jail before trial increases the rate of guilty pleas, and decreases job prospects

50 companies that use US slave labor ………………………… https://t.co/xBgkHaWC71
-via @IWW_IWOC
– RT @KatrinaNation

— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) August 23, 2016

Women are being jailed at a faster rate than men, two-thirds are Black/Latino. (via @BlackYouthProj) #IntelGroup https://t.co/fMkef40O27

— D (@Delo_Taylor) August 22, 2016

Transgender woman found dead in prison during legal battle with corrections officials https://t.co/KXRdwaCKSa pic.twitter.com/pzPhxlTFqy

— ThinkProgress(@thinkprogress) August 23, 2016

U.S. To Stop Federal Prison Privatization After Investigation Shows
Contractor Run Facilities Are More Dangeroushttps://t.co/O4w5Om0GKu

— CorpWatch(@CorpWatch) August 20, 2016

Study: Keeping people in jail before trial increases the rate of guilty pleas, and decreases job prospects https://t.co/iMJ9zpU9Mf

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) August 22, 2016

December 31, 2015 by Oppression Monitor

Wrongly Jailed over a Dream, Newly Free Clarence Moses-EL on Ending His 28-Year Nightmare

Clarence Moses-EL has walked free after 28 years behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit. In 1989, Moses-EL, who is African-American, was sentenced to 48 years in prison after a woman said she dreamed he was the man who raped and beat her in the dark. Moses-EL has always maintained his innocence. The police threw out a rape kit and any possible evidence, like bed sheets and her clothes. Then in 2012, another man confessed to the attack. But Moses-EL remained behind bars until this week, after his conviction was overturned. In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Clarence Moses-EL joins us to discuss his newfound freedom and how another person’s dream became his nearly three-decade nightmare.

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December 28, 2015 by Oppression Monitor

Sandra Bland update

On December 21th 2015, the grand jury said it will bring no charges in the death of Sandra Bland. She died in jail last July, three days after a traffic stop in Waller County, Texas. Two videos of the stop went viral. The medical examiner said she had hanged herself using a trash bag.

Her family seriously doubts it was suicide. Jail officials did not think she was depressed either, even after she told them that she had tried to take her life last year after a miscarriage. They did not put her on suicide watch.

Assata Shakur:

“In prisons, it is not at all uncommon to find a prisoner hanged or burned to death in his cell. No matter how suspicious the circumstances, these deaths are always ruled “suicides.” They are usually Black inmates, considered to be a “threat to the orderly running of the prison.” They are usually among the most politically aware and socially conscious inmates in the prison.”

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October 29, 2015 by Oppression Monitor

Criminalizing the Classroom: Inside the School-to-Prison Pipeline

New York City has more than 5,000 police officers patrolling the city’s schools—that’s more than the combined number of school guidance counselors and social…

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What you see in the screen grab of the video is a special needs Latino child who has been handcuffed on the biceps because the handcuffs were too loose for his wrists. A Black special needs student was also handcuffed.

American – stop this – seriously – stop.

October 16, 2015 by Oppression Monitor

“…prison sentences are doled out in fives because that’s how we like to count.”

On our watch, the United States has become the incarceration nation.

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