Every Floridian and American should watch this to understand the devastating human consequences of Florida's politicization of election laws. tampabay.com/news/florida-p…

BREAKING! In the final hrs of the 117th Congress, lawmakers just passed legislation restoring the FCC's regulatory authority over ALL prison & jail phone & video calls! This will lower rates across the country. Big thanks to Tammy Duckworth @RepBobbyRush for championing this bill!

In 2022, US cops killed more people than any year on record. • 32% were fleeing • 11% committed no offense • 9% during mental health / wellness checks • 8% involved traffic infractions • 18% for non-violent offenses Cops killed +3 everyday for mostly arbitrary reasons.

BREAKING: We have been working to stop AL from developing a gas execution protocol for the death penalty. We now laud Airgas, AL's nitrogen provider, for prohibiting AL from using its gas for executions. Without a pathway forward, AL must keep its moratorium in place.

BREAKING! Over 340 Princeton Seminary students & alumni just delivered a letter to President Jonathan Walton demanding the removal of Michael Fisch from its Board of Trustees given his ownership of ViaPath Technologies (formerly GTL), a predatory prison telecom, through his firm.

97% of parole-eligible people have been denied release from Alabama's overcrowded, violent prisons this year, while the parole board's own guidelines say over 80% in this group should be paroled. What's the word for this? Diseased comes to mind.

My newest oped—“England advancing Alabama Parole Board reform: Support him!”—has just been published in MontgomeryAdvertiser (the best, most historic, most progressive newspaper in Alabama). Please check it out, and if you live in Alabama please share it! Thanks!montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/…

WOW. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey can’t find money for her billion-dollar prison construction project. She took $400M from COVID relief, and now is taking $100M from school funds. Besides the construction firms making money on this deal, who is ok with this?! al.com/news/2023/03/a…

HAPPENING NOW: Climate activists have shut down KKR, the private equity giant investing over $14.5 billion into fossil fuel projects torching the planet. Employees rerouted and entrance blocked. Shut it down! #KKRKills #StoptheMoneyPipeline

A follow-up on our Camp Hill story: Warren Tidwell, one of the organizers quoted in Jemma K Stephenson's story today, says this is a fundraiser for the town. If you can kick in a few bucks, here's the link. …tomotivefreeclinic.networkforgood.com/projects/19204…

*Urgent* Action Alert! Call or email your State Senators to support Sen. Miranda's amendment #941 to have even stronger language for #NoCostCalls to #KeepFamiliesConnected! #mapoli Learn more and take action here: bit.ly/nccsenate23 Please share widely!

This bill is hilariously bad and shows a thorough misunderstanding of how ESG metrics are even considered. If this passes, AL won't have access to most investment capital for state projects and it will cost taxpayers millions in ensuing interest hikes.

Three Stop Cop City activists have been arrested. This is fascism, and I need all eyes on Atlanta.

Once upon a time, there was a prison telecom named Global Tel Link. It got bad press for exploiting incarcerated people + their families, so it changed its name to ViaPath Technologies. Unable to shake its image, private equity owner, American Securities, tried to sell it and failed. 🧵

BREAKING! Massachusetts has just become the 5th state to connect families by making communication FREE for incarcerated people! The new law included in today's budget makes all prison and jail calls and digital communication free, saving families over $25 million every year.

The point of ending money bond is not to replace it with invasive and expensive electronic monitoring that only sets people up to fail. Expanding electronic monitoring does not improve public safety, it's simply enriches prison profiteers finding ways to confine us in our homes.

ANNOUNCEMENT! President Abraham Lincoln is coming back on February 14th to deliver the MOST FAMOUS SPEECH NEVER GIVEN about slavery and the exception in the 13th Amendment. You don’t want to miss this historic moment! Visit now EndTheException.com/lincoln for more.

Writing for The Appeal, Dana Floberg and Morgan Duckett describe the campaign they waged with Worth Rises to bankrupt the prison-tech sector: theappeal.org/securus-bankru… 60/

Incarceration is family separation. For Father's Day, @THillWorthRises & Morgan Duckett of Worth Rises write about their childhood experiences with parental incarceration and their ongoing fight to make prison communication services free. theappeal.org/prison-communi…

Incarceration is family separation, and there’s no way around it. But as we fight to end our nation’s addiction to punishment, one policy could help bring families, especially children, a little closer: free jail and prison communication. Take action at connectfamiliesnow.com.