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Dear @MayorBowser:
Still want to #DefundThePolice?
Should we #EndCashBail for these murderers?
You’ve turned DC into an urban hellhole.
Still want to #DefundThePolice?
Should we #EndCashBail for these murderers?
You’ve turned DC into an urban hellhole.
Dear @SenateDems & @HouseDemocrats:
You have the Capitol walled off from Americans, with razor wire and thousands of heavily armed troops—in addition to hundreds of heavily armed @CapitolPolice.
Yet you want to make it impossible for law-abiding Americans to protect ourselves?
You have the Capitol walled off from Americans, with razor wire and thousands of heavily armed troops—in addition to hundreds of heavily armed @CapitolPolice.
Yet you want to make it impossible for law-abiding Americans to protect ourselves?
While I watch #Debates2020, I'm going to share the ways the issues being discussed relate to my plans for Georgia. #gapol twitter.com/i/events/13186…
"We're not learning to live with it. We're dying."
Cases are climbing back up in Georgia. We need leaders who will provide clear guidance and listen to scientists. #Debates2020 wjcl.com/article/things…
Cases are climbing back up in Georgia. We need leaders who will provide clear guidance and listen to scientists. #Debates2020 wjcl.com/article/things…
I'm glad to hear them discuss the impact of this pandemic on schools. My glambaby just started school & I'm grateful they're working hard to keep him safe. We need resources to support our students & teachers. My opponent voted to defund education by $1 billion this year. #gapol
Our prison system was built to exploit and dehumanize so that corporations can profit. That’s why as your Congresswoman, I’d fight to reform this so deeply broken system.
Here’s how:
➡️ We need to #AbolishPrivatePrisons
➡️ Stop criminalizing poverty and #EndCashBail
➡️ Uplift incarcerated people by ensuring access to higher education opportunities
➡️ We need to #AbolishPrivatePrisons
➡️ Stop criminalizing poverty and #EndCashBail
➡️ Uplift incarcerated people by ensuring access to higher education opportunities
➡️ Stop charging inmates for basic provisions. It's inhumane
➡️ Establish stringent standards for quality of life within prisons
➡️ Reduce incarceration and overcrowding by reforming national parole policies
➡️ Establish programs to facilitate re-entry into society
➡️ Establish stringent standards for quality of life within prisons
➡️ Reduce incarceration and overcrowding by reforming national parole policies
➡️ Establish programs to facilitate re-entry into society
Elected leaders cannot wring their hands about the tragedy of police brutality one minute, state their support of peaceful protest and reducing jail populations, and then use militarized police force against protestors the next. Thread:
Last night, @chicagosmayor trapped protestors downtown by lifting bridges and stopping the CTA, then instated a curfew that made everyone outside arrestable.
In New York, @NYCMayor defended a vehicular homicide attempt and states that the police have acted “appropriately” despite pepper spraying and macing entirely peaceful protestors and arresting journalists like my friend @keithboykin for no reason.
Now is the time to organize and direct resources to Black and grassroots organizations on the ground. Now is the time to channel your rage and fury into action. To mobilize our bodies, talents, and money for our Black family and comrades. How? There are SO MANY things you can do:
If you willing to take on the risk, join a #JusticeForGeorgeFlyod #BlackLivesMatter protest in your city. Or organize one. Follow @riotupdatez. If you aren't Black, you can use your body to protect Black people during protests. This is what it looks like:
Donate to trusted organizers & organizations on the ground. Support impacted folks & black-led grassroots organizations. For MN donate to the Floyd family fund gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd or Black Visions Collective secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUag… or MN Freedom Fund minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate
Friends, I've got some big news. We've spent the last year talking about #publiccorruption and how it is at the root of Arizona's biggest problems. It's time to put words to action, and I ask for your support in my run for Maricopa County Attorney.
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This position has the power to not only prioritize the prosecution of crimes that matter, but enact lasting criminal justice reforms including #EndCashBail, ending #massincarceration, stop the targeting of medical marijuana patients, and #policeaccountability.
This office has been on the wrong side of history for too long: from blocking LGBTQ adoptions, to requiring that taxpayers front Joe Arpaio's legal fees, from employing prosecutors who sexually harass interns, to opposing childhood sexual assault protections.
Just got that "I'm working night court tonight from 5pm-1am" public defender feeling. A mix of bummed, energized, ready, not ready, anticipatory exhaustion and rage.
Update: The feeling only intensifies as 5pm gets closer. Also learned that there are a “number of 16 year olds coming through” to be on the look out for tonight so I can inform our youth unit.
Say it with: 16. Year. Olds. Should. Not. Be. In. Adult. Court.
Say it with: 16. Year. Olds. Should. Not. Be. In. Adult. Court.
Harsh criminal laws that prosecutors then decide to apply harshly. Note: 14 and 15 year olds also come through adult court for certain crimes.
A1.1: In the US, bail, the release from custody of a person accused of a crime, has become synonymous w/ money bail or cash bail. Once you base decisions on whom to incarcerate on the ability to pay cash bail, you ensure that jails are filled w/ poor ppl. #TheBailTrap
A1.2: #Cashbail drives #massincarceration: pretrial incarceration rates have grown almost 500% since 1970, far more than the growth rate for state & federal prisons.#TheBailTrap #JusticeinCrisis vera.org/publications/f…
A1.3: Money doesn’t equal safety. A system dependent on money means that people who are poor go to jail while people who may pose a credible immediate danger to others but have money go free. #TheBailTrap #JusticeinCrisis
Thankful that @RFKHumanRights allowed 105 women and children to get free! nyti.ms/2DCeFNw
But incredibly angry that @NYCMayor & others who knew better engaged in so much scaremongering about this program. While @nytimes is following up with this story, we all know @nypost won't, so the "bailing people out will result in bloodbath" narrative will not be corrected.
And also disappointed that the promulgation of this narrative seemed to result in some winding back of the program from its initial goal of spending $2 million down to just over $1 million. Hoping that this tremendous success will mean more people will be bailed out.
My client walked out of Rikers Island today after a jury acquitted him of all charges. He waited in jail for his trial for 3 years. He lost his job and missed his son’s first 3 birthdays simply because he couldn’t afford bail. He’s not unique - THIS IS OUR SYSTEM. #reform
I’d be remiss not to take this opportunity to direct people to the critically important bail funds out there: @bailproject @BKBailFund @BronxFreedom. Until we succeed in eliminating the abomination that is cash bail, it’s one great way to help. #endcashbail
Public defenders across the country are pouring their hearts out to help people caught in this mess we call the criminal justice system. To check out and support our work in the Bronx, stop by @BronxDefenders.
#PrisonReform is not an abstract issue for me -- it's personal. I believe in justice and dignity for all. I believe that the solutions live in the lives of those most impacted.
That is why, I stand in solidarity with all of the inmates taking part in the national #PrisonStrike.
That is why, I stand in solidarity with all of the inmates taking part in the national #PrisonStrike.
The disparities in the system are not new. They are not secret.
- 2.3 million people sit in US prisons and jails.
- 60% of people behind bars have never been convicted of any crime.
- Women are its fastest growing population.
This amounts to $182B in spending each year.
- 2.3 million people sit in US prisons and jails.
- 60% of people behind bars have never been convicted of any crime.
- Women are its fastest growing population.
This amounts to $182B in spending each year.
In MA, Black & Latino residents make up 17% of the population but account for a majority of inmates. In the #MA7, black residents are incarcerated at 6 times the rate of white residents. And low-income/minority communities account for a disproportionate # of inmates.
