As immigrant NYers face mounting threats, passing the New York for All Act would prohibit state + local officers from enforcing federal immigration laws & sharing info w/ federal immigration authorities. #NY4All

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📣In 2025, we're calling on @GovKathyHochul & state legislators to protect immigrant communities by passing the New York for All Act! #NY4All

Take action to demand real protections from federal policies targeting immigrants.

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Jerome Wright is speaking truth to the NY Assembly. Solitary confinement is torture. Programs he created like M.A.N. or facilitated like Merle Cooper—are the opposite of solitary, involve full days of out of cell group engagement & peer-led programming, and transform lives & improve safety.

Please join us and @JailsAction for a rally this Monday, Dec. 9, at 12 pm on the steps of City Hall.

NYC continues to lock people in various forms of solitary confinement, causing grave harm.

Join us to demand DOC implement Local Law 42 to end solitary and utilize proven alternatives.

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A little reintroduction:

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It is now up to us to protect the people we love.

Join our movement and support a local organization fighting for the respect and dignity of our communities. #ProtectOurFutures

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Self Immolation at Red Onion State Prison Dear Friends, On September 15th, 2024, a tragic, horrifying event took place at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison—an event that highlights the unbearable conditions incarcerated individuals face every...

“In a span of just two weeks, a dozen Black men at Red Onion prison in Virginia took the same desperate measures, setting themselves ablaze. These are not acts of protest. These are human beings driven to extreme lengths, hoping for relief from torment.”

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Four stacks of books of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. Edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson. The cover is covered in flowers (art piece by Olly Costello) against a black background.

Today is our LAUNCH DAY for "We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition" (edited by me & Kim Wilson)!!!🥹❤️

For each copy of the book you buy from @haymarketbooks.bsky.social this month, they will donate a copy of the book to someone in prison.
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Welcome new (and not-so-new) followers. I’m an author & freelance journalist focusing on incarceration, particularly women’s incarceration. My latest book, CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION, examines the Covid-19 pandemic behind bars—and the continuing fallout of prisons’ punitive responses.

Give us a follow if you believe drug policy should be grounded in evidence, health, equity, and human rights.

Light blue, pink, and white candles on a black background, arranged in the order of the Transgender Pride flag. Beneath, the text "TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE NOVEMBER 20" is displayed.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Remember those who have been killed, injured, abused, tortured for being who they are.

Remember those who have taken their own lives because they could not live in a world where they could not be themselves.

Remember them. And make the world remember them.

On Solitary Confinement, California Officials Side With the Prison System—Again Organizers wanted to ban the use of solitary confinement against pregnant Californians. They got something else entirely.

Organizers wanted to ban the use of solitary confinement against pregnant Californians. They got something else entirely.

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Please join us & @JailsAction for a special livestream this Wednesday, Nov 20 at 12 pm:

“Ending Solitary Confinement, Decarcerating Jails, and Promoting Human Rights”

Graph titled: 1 in 3 people behind bars is in jails. Most have yet to be tried in court.

Right now, more than 650,000 people are locked up in jail.

Most of them have not been tried in court and are legally innocent.

So much for the 'land of the free.'

The system does not just punish incarcerated people.

It hurts millions of families and children whose loved ones are behind bars.

Jury Orders Military Contractor CACI to Pay $42 Million to Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors A federal jury in Virginia has found the U.S. military contractor CACI Premier Technology liable for the torture of three prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq in the…

Jury Orders Military Contractor CACI to Pay $42 Million to Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors