Clerk in the Bail Hearing Room is explaining to someone that a defendant did not sign his ROR paperwork yesterday. So she had it sent down to the jail…but “they couldn’t find him…” How? People are in cages and you can’t “find them”? Just City @joshspickler ACLU #Memphis

For the second time this week, the elevator for defendants is broken. If defendants can’t be brought up, hearings can’t take place; meetings with attorneys can’t take place when they should. But we have the money for so many other things… Just City @joshspickler #memphis

ALL EYES ON MPD

Imagine this: two different divisions agreed to ROR you, but due to a clerical error, you weren’t added to the docket. And one of the courts is now closed. So you are in jail through the weekend. Due to a clerical error. A. Clerical. Error. Just City @joshspickler ACLU

#Memphis show up for this!

The amount of crime, hearings, jail time, and stress on defendants that could be avoided if mental healthcare was accessible to everyone…it’s a lot. A lot could be avoided. #memphis #criminaljusticereform #choose901 #mentalhealthcare

When modern day slavery just isn’t enough income for you to fix the water damage and create a safer space in an unsafe building. People sit underneath these panels waiting to be seen. Just City City of Memphis Mayor Lee Harris #memphis

Massachusetts has the lowest incarceration rate in the U.S., but the U.S. puts so many people in cages that Massachusetts is 20% higher incarceration rate than Saudi Arabia, 50% higher than China, 100% higher than France, and 700% higher than Japan.

Wanting to help people who have committed crimes to be rehabilitated and given a chance to change is not pro crime. It’s pro human being. #bailreform #criminaljusticereform #memphis Just City

Direct quote: “If you’re going to be successful in life you need to talk English…” Judge Craft, Criminal Court 7, to a young black man who was trying to explain why he didn’t have a lawyer yet. #memphis901 #criminaljusticesystem Just City @joshspickler ACLU of Tennessee

Just City, a bail reform nonprofit, is suing Shelby County criminal justice officials over a state law that stops judges from factoring ability to pay when setting bail. It alleges the law, sponsored by Sen. Taylor and Rep. Gillespie, is unconstitutional. commercialappeal.com/story/news/loc…

We have until Oct. 17 to stop Texas from making the irreversible mistake of executing #RobertRoberson, an innocent person. Join me and Innocence Project in fighting for Robert by adding your name to his petition: shorturl.at/tFIJ9

#MarcellusWilliams faces execution on 9/24 for a crime that DNA proves he didn’t commit. Join me, Innocence Project, and Midwest Innocence Project in taking action to prevent this irreversible injustice. #SaveMarcellus shorturl.at/elnIN

#MarcellusWilliams faces execution on 9/24 for a crime that DNA proves he didn’t commit. Join me, Innocence Project, and Midwest Innocence Project in taking action to prevent this irreversible injustice. #SaveMarcellus shorturl.at/elnIN

I just wrote a letter: Clemency for Byron Black . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/clemen…