Rest in Power

TX Republicans love to cry about immigration but if it weren't for the thousands of Nigerian Nationals staffing their bloated prisons, their whole justice system would cave in

Texas prisons have spent more than 25 years desocializing and dehumanizing me but left me a name. Soon enough I will die and they will bury me under a headstone with a number instead of a name.

The assault on prisoners’ ability to read books while incarcerated is one of many calculated cruelties that make the US carceral system so inhumane. therealnews.com/why-us-prisons…

The resistance to prisoners reading is an age old one, particularly in Texas where they have a censorship that is completely illogical and unreasonable. It's only going to get worse as they create more Draconian policies to prevent incoming mail

Friendly reminder to the reply guys: Human rights are meaningless if you think only some people deserve them. If you say, "Oh HE was a bad guy so he didn't deserve humane conditions," then you don't really believe in human rights. Rights aren't conditionals.

Many would profess to care about human rights; it's not that they're lying. It's just that there's always exceptions. Historically it's been minorities of race, religion, etc. Prisoners? In their collective subconscious, no one in society actually believes prisoners are human