#prisonabolition — Public Fediverse posts
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⛓️ A federal case in Texas could change how we treat prisoners during hot weather
As heat waves intensify, advocates are pushing for protections for incarcerated people, who have little ability to
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«54th European Group Conference»
Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organizing for Social Liberation.🗓️ 1–4 September 2026
🏙️ Vitoria-Gasteiz(🧵💬 SPA ↑ / EUS ↓)
#Antipunitivism #EuropeanGroup #Antiracism #Anticolonialism #Abolition #PrisonAbolition #BasqueCountry
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A Prison on Fire: Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/24/prison-fires-joliet-illinois-mental-health
> According to one guard, a firefighter said, “This man can die while y’all pussyfooting around.”///////
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rare misdemeanor charges filed against Ohio prison employees who definitely killed an inmate.
nurses, in particular, need to face charges and lose their licenses for this kind of shit that happens ALL THE TIME.
https://pnqk.me/8rluhp #prisonabolition #abolition #medicalfascism
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"Police criminally charged Shae Sanders and Aurora Rush, who were both injured in the cruel attack."
🚨 A mob viciously beat a trans couple. Now the couple is facing prison time.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/a-mob-viciously-beat-a-trans-couple-now-the-couple-is-facing-time/ -
"WNBA superstar Brittney Griner is now separated from her wife, Cherelle, and wants a divorce, according to court"
⛓️ Brittney Griner Files for Divorce From Wife Cherelle After Eight Years of Marriage
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⚖️ Will Churches Welcome Registered Sex Offenders? In Viral Videos, Many Say "Yes"
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A self-described lesbian pro-choice Army veteran in Kentucky is going
https://www.them.us/news/churches-welcome-sex-offenders-viral
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"The Oscar-winning director went all the way back to ancient Greece for The Odyssey, his massive adaptation of Homer's"
🔓 'The Odyssey' Cast's Queerest Movies and TV Shows, Ranked
https://www.them.us/entertainment/tv-and-movies/the-odyssey-cast-queer-roles -
Sometimes when people hear me say I am a prison abolitionist they think I am *anti-consequences*.
Don't get it twisted.
Sometimes people need to sit all the way down and think about what they've done or at the very least lose privileges, property, access. HOW and WHEN that happens is what I am concerned with.
But trust and believe, I DO BELIEVE that actions have consequences and sometimes it is the role of your community to hand some of those consequences over.
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📰 As mass incarceration rose, corporate crime ran amok
Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as
https://therealnews.com/as-mass-incarceration-rose-corporate-crime-ran-amok
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📰 Inmates face torture after prison riots in Sri Lanka
Following the massacre at Negombo Prison, in which 28 people were killed, two more prisoners have died in unexplained
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ANF | IHD calls for closure of 'Pit-Type' prisons
https://english.anf-news.com/human-rights/ihd-calls-for-closure-of-pit-type-prisons-86218
> The Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul Branch Prison Commission held a press conference at the association's office for Gürkan Türkoğlu, who died on 4 July after being transferred to Antalya
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Anarchy Live! The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble
"Because I am gay and black, because I will not tolerate racism or homophobia, because I have a burning hatred for authority, because I love freedom and believe in self-determination, I became an anarchist."
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“They call us criminals and indeed we are criminals when we act outside of laws made by the state. We are free only when we act outside of laws made by the state.”
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Read: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive.pdf
Print: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive-imposed.pdf
Support Michael Kimble! https://www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelkimble
#zine #MichaelKimble #FreeMichaelKimble #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSupport #anarchy #prisonabolition
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📰 Incarcerated People Lose Treasured Media When Prisons Change Tablet Contracts
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📰 Attica: The making and significance of a heroic prison uprising
https://liberationschool.org/attica-the-making-and-significance-of-a-heroic-prison-uprising/
#Education #LiberationSchool #Marxism #PrisonAbolition #Workers
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San Quentin's $239M learning center sits empty amid staffing, budget constraints - Local News Matters
> “California cannot afford to keep pouring money into 15,000 empty prison beds while families are being told there is not enough money for housing, healthcare, food, and basic support.”
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Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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RE: https://climatejustice.social/@Aurin_the_classtraitor/116499328654651253
Forgot to mention prisoners! #PrisonAbolition is part of our shared struggles too! Now more than ever!
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How States Are Grappling With an Aging Prison Population | The Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/21/old-california-release-prison-louisiana
> Research shows people often “age out” of crime, and health care costs are ballooning. But still, many states oppose releasing elderly prisoners.
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My city's mayor (Mamdani) had iftar with Muslim inmates at Rikers yesterday. Your mayor....did not.
Now let's hope he has the courage to shut that place down.
