The easiest way to give a vital but low-lift boost to the effort to pass #DignityNotDetention is to join our weekly phone+email zap on Tuesday @ 12:00 PM EDT: bit.ly/DNDZAP We've seen it time & again: the legislators we call prioritize cosponsorship. Period.

#JailsKill #ShutDownRikers with #NoMoreJails May #RubuZhao’s memory spark an uprising and his family be surrounded with care. #FreeThemAll 🔥

We’re on a short, planned break until June 5. We’ll be back to co-organizing our people’s freedom with you very sooooon. Stay safe. Stay fierce. 🖤

Damning special report issued tonite by federal monitor in charge of oversight at Rikers Island jails, with assertion that Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani's New York City Department of Correction is hiding info about deadly incidents, downplaying officers' lethal use of force & failing to investigate possible illegalities 1/

#ShutDownRikers NOW with #NoNewJails!

This morning, APD raided The Teardown House and arrested three organizers with Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The Solidarity Fund provides legal defense and bail support for first amendment protected activities in Atlanta and the surrounding area.

Attacking the Solidarity Fund for charity fraud should concern all bail funds, all abortion funds, all travel funds for migrants, watchdog groups, all organized material support for people criminalized by the government.

We stand with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. #SOSAtlanta #WeAreAllForestDefenders #StopCopCity

NEW: The city Department of Correction has abruptly stopped notifying the media when an incarcerated person dies and will no longer do so in the future. buff.ly/3MM0CXm

THIS IS A FUCKING OUTRAGE. THEY CAN’T STOP KILLING PEOPLE AT RIKERS SO THEY ARE JUST GOING TO STOP TELLING US. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

For seven years, we've worked to ensure that anyone arrested exercising their right to protest can make bail and afford lawyers. We've helped hundreds of Atlantans through every step of the process. Now we're asking for your help. [thread]

Cop City will never be built.

If you're thinking about mass incarceration this #Juneteenth2023, consider the complete scope: not just 2 million people behind bars, but 3.5 million on probation and parole, systems that can replicate prison conditions in the community. 30% of people under supervision are Black.

I spoke with someone who knew Joshua Valles, who died after a skull injury on Rikers. She described a sweet, generous man, working through a host of challenges. "You could tell instantly, he wasn't for the streets." she said. "He was just like a big kid." hellgatenyc.com/a-friend-remem…

Ferguson political prisoner, Josh Williams, is still locked up & was in solitary a long time. But he just got out & can now access funds via JPay (previously denied). Pls send $$$ via JPay.com to make life more bearable until #FreeJosh Joshua Williams #1292002, MO

Jails and prisons are zones of terror. Abolish them all.

People being murdered by the state is unacceptable. Yet there is an added layer of nauseating savagery when a society chooses to continuously use jails to kill & torture the poor and disabled, and folks still want to have “debates” about abolition. Rest in peace Samuel Lawrence

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