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Rep. Tim Briggs Ashley Nellis, Director of Research of The Sentencing Project is speaking. “Pennsylvania is an outlier. It is one of only two states that requires life without parole for both first and second degree murder. Most states do not require life without parole for felony murder.”

WATCH LIVE: House Judiciary Committee public hearing on HB 2296 Felony Murder* We’re in Harrisburg with our movement family to support HB 2296, a bill to end mandatory life w/o parole sentences for people convicted of 2nd degree/felony murder.
WATCH live:youtube.com/live/sP-W54yFQ…

Abolition is global

When we talk about climate change and how it impacts everyone, incarcerated individuals are always left out the conversation. Thank you Prison Policy Init. for uplifting this.

#FreePalestine

My latest book is out. The Warehouse:A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration with wonderful graphics by my co-author, information artist #vicliu . We need more accessible materials to educate people to end mass incarceration. Hope this will help. Amandla

Methadone withdrawal is beastly and dangerous. Jerome Maynor went through it at 71, with COVID, in the Allegheny County Jail. Now he does street outreach. Venuri Siriwardane and Stephanie Strasburg worked with Jerome to share his story publicsource.org/allegheny-coun…

We couldn’t make tonight’s awards but thank you to the Press Club of Western Pa. for recognizing our work and the families of those lost in Pennsylvania jails.

Joshua Vaughn Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism PennLive.com

I was horrified to learn more than 60 individuals have come forward to share they were sexually abused by staff at juvenile detention facilities. More facilities are not the solution to our broken juvenile justice system.

On any given day, more than 50,000 people are in solitary confinement – a practice that literally shrinks the brain and leads to permanent damage.

Is this how the system plans to “reform” incarcerated people?

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Last week, Elizabeth Warren & Sen. Cory Booker introduced the Families Over Fees Act.

Each year, billions are mined from incarcerated people & their families through predatory “junk fees.” This bill aims to stop that, shielding one of the most vulnerable populations from exploitation. 🧵

A bill that would end Death By Incarceration for felony murder has been introduced!

Thank you Rep. Tim Briggs for being a champion for second chances for incarcerated people who have turned their lives around.

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