Slavery in the name of the 13 amendment for black American men. We can legally discriminate against African-American men. Wednesday are convicted felon,. Anti-blackness is alive and well x.com/_Love_Lexi/sta…

The community was an overwhelming 'NO' on implementing a $4 million contract for Surveiling Smart Streetlights and Automatic License Plate Reading technologies. San Diego City Council cast a 7-2 'YES' vote, in the presence of about two dozen officers in attendance.

Just when you think our predatory for-profit ‘healthcare’ system cannot get any worse a Louisville hospital is caught dumping sick elderly patients on the sidewalk & leaving them. FULL STORY: wave3.com/2023/06/29/its…

Let’s not forget, 2021 when a white man in Hutchinson, MN recklessly drove off at high speed with a cop stuck to his truck, hit the officer with a hammer, and was arrested and sentenced to 1 year in prison. But somehow Ricky Cobb II “deserved” to be shot and killed..

"At the prison where I am incarcerated, many jobs pay only 42 cents an hour. A local 20-minute phone call costs $1.43, meaning a prisoner must work 3.5 hours to cover the cost of that call. A 3-oz bag of freeze-dried coffee is $3.34, or 8 hours of work." theappeal.org/prison-labor-s…

She forgave her grandmother's murderer. She watched as Alabama killed him anyway. Sarah Gregory spent days with Jimi Barber before witnessing his execution. treadbylee.com/p/she-forgave-… Tread by Lee Lee Hedgepeth Project HOPE Journey of Hope Alabama Arise Equal Justice Initiative @thewoodsfdn

Christopher David Cordeiro pulled over a diabetic man with a heart condition, wouldn't allow him to regulate his blood sugar, and tased the man 9 separate times while he begged for his life. By the time backup arrived the victim was dead face down in a ditch.

“Backpage worked…to actually stop sex trafficking…But they refused to do the same for consensual sex work & that is why the feds eventually came down on them like a ton of bricks, all while telling the media & politicians that it was for sex trafficking” techdirt.com/2023/08/02/jim…

It was great to work with The Appeal on this article about the right's attack on the "progressive prosecutor" movement. It likely comes as no surprise that this story starts in Florida. theappeal.org/conservatives-…

'It's torture because it eats at the human soul' — Here's what to know about solitary confinement and the movement to end it (with @MrJohnnyPerez & NRCAT)

"In Texas, animal shelters are obliged by law to ensure that their ambient temperature does not rise above 85F (29C) for more than two hours... If only humans were so lucky." theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…

Kalief Browder was FALSELY accused of stealing a backpack. He spent three years in Rikers Island, one of the worst prisons in the world, awaiting trial, mostly in solitary confinement. He committed suicide. Donald Trump has 78 federal and state criminal charges. He goes home

This is wild: In Houston - where the state is considering intervening - there were 10 jail deaths this yr in a population of ~9100. In Los Angeles, there were 26 in a population of 12,863. That's a death rate of ~11 per 10,000 in Houston vs ~20 per 10,000 in LA.

Prison: Day 6,075 "Nobody is coming here [to this prison] and going to school full time. They're gonna work, and maybe they can do night classes." Words spoken by a high-level admin., after I shared interest in working on my next degree. Should prisoners be forced to work?

Function of the CIA: 1. Run secret wars 2. Disseminate propaganda to influence people’s minds That’s NOT hyperbole. That’s from the Former Operations Director of the CIA. Think about this next time you buy the narratives that are crafted to control you. x.com/JoseJuMarti/st…

I spoke too soon. LASD just posted another in-custody death -- which means the total is up to 27 this year. The most recent one was in a dayroom in... Men's Central Jail.

Columbus police officer Ricky Anderson has been indicted on murder charges for the 2022 killing of Donovan Lewis. Donovan was asleep and unarmed in the bed when cops burst through the door and shot him.

WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ A police officer in Arkansas shot a woman on her own porch while trying to shoot her Pomeranian

A very interesting read.

“I was having contractions in the holding cell. My back was sending me sharp pains. I was having spasms. I think I was probably having a panic attack,” said Ms. Woodruff, a licensed aesthetician and nursing school student. “I was hurting, sitting on those concrete benches.”