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  1. News, culture, and commentary from Black voices: Tony Brown's legacy, the fight over locs in prison, and rethinking who the economy really serves.

    #BlackVoices #USPol #PrisonReform #Supergirl #blackmastodon

    atblackmedia.leaflet.pub/3mpta

  2. News, culture, and commentary from Black voices: Tony Brown's legacy, the fight over locs in prison, and rethinking who the economy really serves.

    #BlackVoices #USPol #PrisonReform #Supergirl #blackmastodon

    atblackmedia.leaflet.pub/3mpta

  3. Former DOJ Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer has uncovered a massive, quiet policy change at the Bureau of Prisons (dated May 6) that completely strips away objective checks and balances for federal inmate placement.

    The new rule gives Acting AG Todd Blanche total, unchecked authority to bypass standard BOP safety scoring and personally dictate where prisoners serve time.

    The warning? Allies get fast-tracked to comfy halfway houses or home confinement, while political opponents or protestors could face unilateral placement in maximum-security prisons alongside violent offenders. No review.

    No limits.This is the weaponization of the prison system hiding in plain sight, and it needs to be the central focus of Blanche's upcoming Senate confirmation hearings.

    podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/

    #DOJ #ToddBlanche #LizOyer #Whistleblower #Accountability #RuleOfLaw #PrisonReform #GovernmentOversight

  4. San Quentin's $239M learning center sits empty amid staffing, budget constraints - Local News Matters

    localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/1

    > “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.”

    #prisonabolition #prisonreform

  5. San Quentin's $239M learning center sits empty amid staffing, budget constraints - Local News Matters

    localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/1

    > “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.”

    #prisonabolition #prisonreform

  6. Please make time to listen to Tahlia Isaac's International Women's Day Address from 2025, speaking from her personal experiences and the stories of others, about how we treat Indigenous women whom society labels as "criminals" and locks up for overwhelmingly minor offences, further oppressing them and pushing them into poverty and recidivism.

    In my opinion, if you think prisons perform a necessary function in society for separating the "bad" from the "good" and keeping communities safe, or that police and the courts are fair and just, then you don't yet understand the system.

    abc.net.au/listen/programs/big

    #IndigenousWomen #SystemicOppression #PrisonReform #SocialJustice #AboriginalWomen #InternationalWomensDay

  7. Please make time to listen to Tahlia Isaac's International Women's Day Address from 2025, speaking from her personal experiences and the stories of others, about how we treat Indigenous women whom society labels as "criminals" and locks up for overwhelmingly minor offences, further oppressing them and pushing them into poverty and recidivism.

    In my opinion, if you think prisons perform a necessary function in society for separating the "bad" from the "good" and keeping communities safe, or that police and the courts are fair and just, then you don't yet understand the system.

    abc.net.au/listen/programs/big

    #IndigenousWomen #SystemicOppression #PrisonReform #SocialJustice #AboriginalWomen #InternationalWomensDay

  8. White House Pursues Alcatraz Prison Revival With $152 Million Ask

    The White House wants $152 million to start reopening Alcatraz prison. This plan faces strong opposition from critics and California leaders.

    #AlcatrazPrison, #FederalBudget, #TrumpProposal, #PrisonReform, #CaliforniaPolitics

    newsletter.tf/white-house-asks

  9. Guests Ross Thomas and Leslie Nuss call out the endless tough on crime cycle - a system that feeds private prisons and punishes poverty instead of fixing it.

    Full episode at hoosleft.us

    #IndianaPolitics #Crime #MassIncarceration #PrisonReform

  10. Now available: A 3-part training series for those in prison and probation
    sectors, with a focus on cases involving extremist behaviour or radicalisation
    risk.

    🔗 buff.ly/3RCYJAi

    #CriminalJusticeReform #PrisonReform #Security #Recidivism

  11. Now available: A 3-part training series for those in prison and probation sectors, with a focus on cases involving extremist behaviour or radicalisation risk.

    🔗 buff.ly/3RCYJAi

    #CriminalJusticeReform #PrisonReform #Reintegration #Security #Recidivism

  12. Wagner Law Group secures $116M settlement for 103 sexual assault victims at Dublin federal prison, exposing systemic abuse and demanding institutional accountability. Justice prevails for survivors of institutional misconduct. #PrisonReform #JusticeServed

  13. This is the #DisintegrationChecklist. #TheChecklist of what we can expect to lose in the next four years. That makes it a tool for gauging the progress of loss. 43 items. A grim countdown score in the form of a simple number: how many are still left? That is the #DisintegrationScore. 43... for now.

    _________________________
    from‬ absurdistwords.bsky.social‬:

    #ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears (A non-exhaustive list)

    #AbortionRights
    #Contraception
    #NoFaultDivorce
    #ViolenceAgainstWomenAct (#VAWA)
    #CivilRightsAct
    #VotingRightsAct
    #FirstAmendment Protections
    #BirthrightCitizenship
    #NaturalizationProtection
    #EnvironmentalProtection
    #ConsumerProtection
    #FraudProtection
    #PoliceBrutality #ConsentDecrees
    #HabeasCorpus
    Three #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
    #GenderAffirmingCare
    #HormoneReplacement
    #InVitroFertilization
    #SameSexMarriage
    #InterracialMarriage
    #AntiDiscrimination Laws
    #WorkerSafety Laws
    #CollectiveBargaining
    #AffordableCareAct (#ACA)
    #PrisonReform
    #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct (#ADA)
    #RightToPrivacy
    #SeparationOfChurchAndState
    #ForeignAid Programs
    #PovertyPrograms
    #PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision
    #SexualFreedom
    #AntiSegregation Laws
    #VaccineMandates
    #PublicSchool System
    #PublicLibrary System
    #StareDecisis
    #ChildLabor Laws
    #Antitrust Laws
    #LegalCannabis
    #Pornography
    #SexWorker Protections
    #InternetFreedom
    _________________________

    Keeping track of this #DisintegrationChecklist, & the
    #DisintegrationScore, is not a silly thing. I am not trying to #gamify the #apocalypse. It is a concrete measure, and if it is widely shared, it will make apparent even to the distracted the accelerating loss. A tool for those capable of caring.

    bsky.app/profile/absurdistword

  14. This is the #DisintegrationChecklist. #TheChecklist of what we can expect to lose in the next four years. That makes it a tool for gauging the progress of loss. 43 items. A grim countdown score in the form of a simple number: how many are still left? That is the #DisintegrationScore. 43... for now.

    _________________________
    from‬ absurdistwords.bsky.social‬:

    #ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears (A non-exhaustive list)

    #AbortionRights
    #Contraception
    #NoFaultDivorce
    #ViolenceAgainstWomenAct (#VAWA)
    #CivilRightsAct
    #VotingRightsAct
    #FirstAmendment Protections
    #BirthrightCitizenship
    #NaturalizationProtection
    #EnvironmentalProtection
    #ConsumerProtection
    #FraudProtection
    #PoliceBrutality #ConsentDecrees
    #HabeasCorpus
    Three #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
    #GenderAffirmingCare
    #HormoneReplacement
    #InVitroFertilization
    #SameSexMarriage
    #InterracialMarriage
    #AntiDiscrimination Laws
    #WorkerSafety Laws
    #CollectiveBargaining
    #AffordableCareAct (#ACA)
    #PrisonReform
    #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct (#ADA)
    #RightToPrivacy
    #SeparationOfChurchAndState
    #ForeignAid Programs
    #PovertyPrograms
    #PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision
    #SexualFreedom
    #AntiSegregation Laws
    #VaccineMandates
    #PublicSchool System
    #PublicLibrary System
    #StareDecisis
    #ChildLabor Laws
    #Antitrust Laws
    #LegalCannabis
    #Pornography
    #SexWorker Protections
    #InternetFreedom
    _________________________

    Keeping track of this #DisintegrationChecklist, & the
    #DisintegrationScore, is not a silly thing. I am not trying to #gamify the #apocalypse. It is a concrete measure, and if it is widely shared, it will make apparent even to the distracted the accelerating loss. A tool for those capable of caring.

    bsky.app/profile/absurdistword

  15. Some personal reflections on prison medical care

    This is a personal account of medical practices and healthcare behind bars, which draws on direct experiences and narrations from fellow prisoners, accumulated during eleven years in custody. It touches on issues of the relationship of medical professionals with the torture of detenus, the anarchy of everyday prison medication, frailty and death among older inmates and the proposals and prospects for prison healthcare reform. It sees a need for systemic change, but the prognosis is not optimistic. Vernon Gonsalves writes.

    #BK16 #prisons #PrisonMedicalCare #healthcare #MedicalEthics #PrisonHospitals #PrisonReform #PrisonDoctors #PoliticalPrisoners #torture #HumanRights #DraconianLaws #UAPA #india

    ijme.in/articles/some-personal

  16. Some personal reflections on prison medical care

    This is a personal account of medical practices and healthcare behind bars, which draws on direct experiences and narrations from fellow prisoners, accumulated during eleven years in custody. It touches on issues of the relationship of medical professionals with the torture of detenus, the anarchy of everyday prison medication, frailty and death among older inmates and the proposals and prospects for prison healthcare reform. It sees a need for systemic change, but the prognosis is not optimistic. Vernon Gonsalves writes.

    #BK16 #prisons #PrisonMedicalCare #healthcare #MedicalEthics #PrisonHospitals #PrisonReform #PrisonDoctors #PoliticalPrisoners #torture #HumanRights #DraconianLaws #UAPA #india

    ijme.in/articles/some-personal

  17. #IMO Cancel Culture is a different card in the same hand that makes it impossible for felons to find gainful #employment and return to #crime

    Maybe not everyone, but cutting people off to resources and the better #community for bad behaviors just makes them turn to the people who agree with their bad actions - which doesn’t help anyone.

    We do not have to fail the same way #prison fails to rehabilitate and reintegrate. We can teach and encourage others to become better and make our community better.

    #JustSomeThoughts #monday #cancel #cancelculture #ihatethetermcancelculture #prisonreform #sentencingreform #rehabilitation #bringthemcloser

  18. #IMO Cancel Culture is a different card in the same hand that makes it impossible for felons to find gainful #employment and return to #crime

    Maybe not everyone, but cutting people off to resources and the better #community for bad behaviors just makes them turn to the people who agree with their bad actions - which doesn’t help anyone.

    We do not have to fail the same way #prison fails to rehabilitate and reintegrate. We can teach and encourage others to become better and make our community better.

    #JustSomeThoughts #monday #cancel #cancelculture #ihatethetermcancelculture #prisonreform #sentencingreform #rehabilitation #bringthemcloser

  19. #IMO Cancel Culture is a different card in the same hand that makes it impossible for felons to find gainful #employment and return to #crime

    Maybe not everyone, but cutting people off to resources and the better #community for bad behaviors just makes them turn to the people who agree with their bad actions - which doesn’t help anyone.

    We do not have to fail the same way #prison fails to rehabilitate and reintegrate. We can teach and encourage others to become better and make our community better.

    #JustSomeThoughts #monday #cancel #cancelculture #ihatethetermcancelculture #prisonreform #sentencingreform #rehabilitation #bringthemcloser

  20. #IMO Cancel Culture is a different card in the same hand that makes it impossible for felons to find gainful #employment and return to #crime

    Maybe not everyone, but cutting people off to resources and the better #community for bad behaviors just makes them turn to the people who agree with their bad actions - which doesn’t help anyone.

    We do not have to fail the same way #prison fails to rehabilitate and reintegrate. We can teach and encourage others to become better and make our community better.

    #JustSomeThoughts #monday #cancel #cancelculture #ihatethetermcancelculture #prisonreform #sentencingreform #rehabilitation #bringthemcloser