#Prisons

The first two people to die on Rikers Island were caged only bc of a “technical” parole violation. They committed no crimes.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/nyregion/rikers-coronavirus-deaths-parolees.html Raymond Rivera, the second person to die o
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23 November 1993, 12-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo is horse-riding, his great passion, at stables in Altofonte in the province of Palermo. During a break, a group of men in police
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A year ago I realised we were no longer living in nations that respected any human rights. Of course the signs were already there but on April 11, 2019 the
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When your allies turn out to be bullies: how @fawcettsociety got lost Back in 2017 when many of us hadn't got our heads round the issue Fawcett put out its
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23 November 1993, 12-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo is horse-riding, his great passion, at stables in Altofonte in the province of Palermo. During a break, a group of men in police
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38 Suggestions for Reopening the Economy While Continuing to Fight the Pandemichttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1tKvCnH0gvJstCbpfiUH6rvqpmlorvZJYPbFUrSDYu8c/edit?usp=sharingReopen public life1. Everybody should wear masks when outdoors & with o
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Government source says French threats against Jersey are worse than Nazi occupation: “At least the Nazis kept the lights on.”The ignorance & denialism about history here is shocking. The scale
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Why attack defenders working for a 'Green New Normal'? [A Visual Thread] #COVID19 #StopTheAttacks #DefendTheDefenders In the past two months since the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte initiated the world’s
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This is gonna be a really long thread on JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA. According to their website, JLUSA is “a national non-profit, [and] is led by directly impacted people and is dedicated to
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Le saviez-vous ?Le "sentiment d'insécurité" c'est une invention de droite, qui veut dire le contraire de ce que vous pensez. Contexte : c'est les années 70. La France (et le
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What if I told you that I've actually been enslaved? So no one is paying attention, huh? Sorry about how long it's taking to unpack this, but I'm really reliving
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Reports of a riot at the Monroe Correctional Complex where inmates have been put in isolation for #COVID19 and where there are now six positive cases among incarcerated individuals.https://twitter.com/KING5Seattle/status/1248082888811134976 Office
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Since 2011, I've noticed two main trends in my conversations with #Syria's Alawis:1) Levels of frustration/resentment among loyalists have grown exponentially2) Past dissidents, including those who served long, torturous sentences
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It was incredibly stupid.I know a lot of people don't care about this, but I wanna summarize one of the least self-aware moments in Trek (and that's saying something).https://twitter.com/marchofthenorth/status/1320585722663964672 Ok
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I’m the last person you should ask what #JusticeForFloyd looks like, but if you want to hang out together at the edge of my learning ... /1 Derek Chauvin is
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Hello! More of you have started following me in the last weeks since I last did this, so let me introduce you to YET MORE people I respect, who've created
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