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Data, research, and advocacy on pay-to-stay, politics, and government finances | 🪙⚖️💰 Co-Founded by @curlyprofessor @aprilfernandes @gabrielamkirk1
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Joined August 2022
📢 New case study “Pay-to-Stay as Stategraft” published in Wisconsin Law Review is out today! Led by @gabrielamkirk1 It’s open-access and documents this practice, its harms, and legal challenges for legal scholars, legal aid advocates, and lawmakers.
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Stategraft refers to the practice by which “state agents transfer property from persons to the state in violation of the state’s own laws or basic human rights.”1 Public officials engaging in...
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RT @CurlyProfessor: We detail the challenges faced by incarcerated individuals with disabilities in navigating this system and how legal ac….
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RT @CurlyProfessor: 📢Our new article @CaptiveMoneyLab introduces the theoretical concept of "civil lawfare" based on our analysis of AG led….
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ABSTRACT. To offset rising mass incarceration expenses, states adopted strategies to increase revenue, including charging incarcerated individuals pay-to-s
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RT @ExtremeArturo: In a world where funding tells you everything you need to know about priorities, Eric Adams defunded NYC public librarie….
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Holding a ceremony to congratulate a child for overcoming the violence they inflicted on him and his family is perverse. Debt is one of the leading causes of psychological distress in America.
A Missouri school district is honoring a fifth grader who raised enough money to pay off all of his school’s student lunch debt – $7,300. The Blue Springs School District has over $150,000 worth of school lunch debt
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RT @AlHendiify: Children being in food debt to the school they’re legally required to be in is insane.
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RT @elizabethweill: So far, 6 Clayton County Jail detainees have died this year, more than in all of 2023. One man, Eric Lee, was held on a….
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Lawsuit filed in Iowa by civil rights groups to block sheriff extracting money from people being released from jail .
publicjustice.net
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 13, 2024 MEDIA CONTACTS: Nicole Funaro, Public Justice media relations strategist, [email protected]; 203-435-1722 Veronica Lorson Fowler, ACLU of Iowa...
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RT @BiancaTylek: Today, Congress held a hearing about prison labor’s legacy in chattel slavery. Witnesses gave well-researched testimony ab….
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RT @philmandelbaum: 50% of Americans can’t afford their rent or mortgage payments. - 22% skip meals.- 21% work more hours.- 21% sell their….
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RT @roywoodjr: Police broke his leg then offered him a SILLY plea deal. Thabo lost 6 figures fighting that shit on principle alone. Only re….
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RT @philmandelbaum: “We're building an economy where no one is going to be left behind. My economic plan is about investing in places, peop….
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RT @PrisonPolicy: A reminder during National Police Week: . Policing criminal law violations costs taxpayers more than $63 billion each yea….
prisonpolicy.org
Police disproportionately target Black and other marginalized people in stops, arrests, and use of force; and are increasingly called upon to respond to problems, such ...
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The nexus of pay to stay and prison labor creates a cycle of extraction and forced indebtedness designed to enslave incarcerated people, their loved ones, and any communities they call home. #moderndayslavery.
Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery”
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RT @Phil_Lewis_: Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges m….
bloomberg.com
Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good.
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RT @BiancaTylek: Few are familiar with the prison industry and fewer know the extent of its greed. This invisibility has protected it and i….
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A phone call to a US prison or jail can cost up to a dollar per minute -- a rate that forces one in three families with incarcerated loved ones into debt. In this searing talk about mass incarcerat...
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RT @CurlyProfessor: Today’s @ABFResearch symposium was so rewarding. Caught up with my people @KarinMartinPhD @robinbartram1 @sarahlageson….
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RT @CurlyProfessor: Looking forward to heading to Detroit tomorrow and presenting the latest research from @CaptiveMoneyLab on prison pay t….
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RT @Hyper0bjekt: As we approach the 70th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, check out our latest app that lets you explore 30 yea….
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RT @equalityAlec: THREAD. Last night, the White House quietly sent out a press release notifying reporters that Biden would be seeking $37….
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When we investigated Florida back in 2019 we found that legal appeals challenging this practice were denied because judges claimed FL pay to stay law is designed to charge money based on one’s original sentence despite early release given criminal contact inconveniences the state.
A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.
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