"What Life is Really Like for a Teen in Adult Prison" by Christopher Dankovich, an incarcerated writer in Michigan, is featured at the Prison Writers website.
#voicesoftheincarcerated
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@endfelonymurder.bsky.social
Non-profit organization of concerned residents organizing to bring an end to the felony murder rule and its harsh and disproportionate sentencing. https://fmeproject.org
"What Life is Really Like for a Teen in Adult Prison" by Christopher Dankovich, an incarcerated writer in Michigan, is featured at the Prison Writers website.
#voicesoftheincarcerated
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Advocates held a press conference for Charles "Sonny" Burton, "A Life on the Line: Clemency for Sonny Burton." Advocate Rabia Chaudry hosted the event as support for clemency grows ahead of Burton's planned 3/12 execution for a murder he did not commit.
#abolishthedeathpenalty
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FMEP urges supporters to tell Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to grant clemency for Sonny Burton ahead of a 3/12 execution date. Burton is facing execution for his role as an accomplice in a 1991 robbery where he did not kill anyone.
#abolishthedeathpenalty
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According to a yearlong review of the North Carolina's 13 juvenile detention centers by Disability Rights North Carolina, several of those juvenile facilities are violating solitary confinement guidelines.
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After a hazardous materials exposure, the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino, CA, is engaged in ongoing punitive searches, directly impacting the health & well-being of incarcerated women and staff.
Help us take action to end these searches!
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The @famm.org offers virtual training to assist people in becoming Criminal Justice Super Advocates, supporting fair & just criminal justice policies in their states & local jurisdictions.
#criminaljusticeadvocacy
Details on TONIGHT'S training
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The Oscar-Nominated Documentary The Alabama Solution exposes the inhumane conditions, systemic injustice, and brutal treatment of those behind bars in the Alabama prison system as told through their own voices and experiences.
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The essay "Two-Tiered System: Racial Disparities" by incarcerated journalist @kwanetaharris.bsky.social is featured on her Substack, "Write or Die."
#voicesoftheincarcerated
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As calls increase for better water quality monitoring and mitigation in rural and economically disadvantaged communities, research adds prisons, jails and detention centers to the areas of concern in ensuring safe drinking water for incarcerated people.
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FMEP asks supporters to act in support of the HUGS Act (#AB1645 - Mark Gonzalez D-54) which ensures that California's prison visiting rooms are places of dignity and care, not sites of over policing and punishment.
#KeepFamiliesTogether
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Who really pays the real costs of maintaining contact with loved ones in prisons? US families shoulder nearly $350 billion dollars in annual costs tied to incarceration, spending an average of $4,200 annually per incarcerated relative.
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Free legal clinic tomorrow, Saturday February 14th, from 10am to 12n PT at the Ross Snyder Recreation Center in Los Angeles.
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FMEP wishes to pass an update on Senate Bill 672, shared with us by the SB 672 Advocacy Team.
"...after deep deliberation, we have determined that there is no longer a responsible path for advancing SB 672 this year."
Read the statement.
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As crime rates nationally in the US reach historic lows, it's become more important than ever for citizens and taxpayers to follow the money behind mass incarceration policy and the increased spending those policies support.
#endmassincarceration
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There has been a decline in parole activity in the US, both in terms of the total population on parole and the rate at which parole is granted, meaning many individuals stay incarcerated past initial parole eligibility dates, even for nonviolent offenses.
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To our supporters, we want to share an upcoming event; Save the Date - Lifer School on Saturday, March 14, 930a-430p PT, at the UCLA campus in LA, facilitated by our longtime partners at UnCommon Law. The day-long symposium focuses on navigating CA's parole process.
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Incarcerated individuals in winter often find themselves facing an increased chance of severe health risks due to unheated or poorly heated, drafty facilities, leading to dangerous hypothermia, increased illness, and in some cases, death.
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California cities experienced record-low homicide rates in 2025, reaching milestones not seen in decades, reflecting nationwide trends - and despite the lies of the "crime waves in cities" rhetoric.
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NPR/PBS affiliate in San Diego @kpbssandiego.bsky.social conducted an investigative report on how the historical racial disparities in life without parole charges has grown in San Diego County under the current District Attorney, Summer Stephan.
#DropLWOP
#SentencingReform
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Alvin Smith is an incarcerated artist in MI. His painting Undesirable Water was chosen as the cover for The Massachusetts Reviewβs Winter 2025 issue, which focused on βIncarceration & Family.β
#voicesoftheincarcerated
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CDCR is proposing a bereavement Leave policy for incarcerated people to receive leave following the death of an immediate family member. Public comments are open until 3/10/26. Families, advocates & community members have the opportunity to be heard.
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A formerly incarcerated non-profit leader purchased the former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro, NC, with plans to convert the facility into a re-entry housing and a workforce development service.
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Accessibility to mental health care in prison is vital as roughly 40-50% of incarcerated persons in the United States have a history of mental illness, yet federal prisons are currently dealing with a significant shortage of mental health professionals.
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In an opinion piece featured on the Capitol Weekly website, Carrie Harambasic, Head of Business Development with
@lushcosmetics.bsky.social writes "Lush Cosmetics urges Governor Newsom to Clear Californiaβs Death Row."
#commutetherow
#clemencyNOW
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The Massachusetts Survivors Act creates alternative and resentencing avenues for survivors of family violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking whose transgressions were connected to their abuse.
#protectsurvivors
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Around 50,000 of the people released from jail or prison every year have nowhere to go but the streets or a shelter, a number only exacerbated as jurisdictions choose to criminalize homelessness, rather than choose policy that alleviates homelessness.
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The following piece, "A Letter from Dr. King" is written by incarcerated writer and activist @kwanetaharris.bsky.social and appears on her Substack, Write or Die.
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The essay "What Life is Really Like for a Teen in Adult Prison" is written by Chris Dankovich, an incarcerated writer in Michigan, and appears on the Prison Writers website.
#voicesoftheincarcerated
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Condemned occupants of death row in the US generally have a right to have a spiritual advisor in the chamber resulting from the SCOTUS ruling in Ramirez v. Collier (2022).
The State of Missouri denied spiritual advisors on two occasions last year.
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Lush Cosmetics is doing an in-store action calling on
@governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom to commute all death row sentences, today through January 20. Now is your chance to buy fancy soap AND advance the end of the death penalty in California.
#commutetherow
#clemencyNOW
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