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BREAKING: In hundreds of jails across the US, children can no longer visit their parents. Why? A conspiracy to make money.
We filed two landmark lawsuits on behalf of children in Michigan to stop this. Children have a
#Right2Hug
their parents. 🧵
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Not one, but TWO victories in New Orleans! On Friday, we won declaratory judgment in a suit that argues the city operates a modern-day debtors’ prison: jailing folks too poor to pay court fines & fees. Today, we won summary judgment in our suit challenging the cash bail system.
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"The presence of SROs directly impacts the school to prison pipeline, easily funneling black students into the criminal legal system. The mere presence of an armed, uniformed officer changes the learning setting."
#EndMassIncarceration
#Vote
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The second suicide in the Harris County jail this month. Our hearts are broken. This is why we fight to end money bail.
Houston woman incarcerated on theft charges who couldn't make $1,500 bail hangs herself at the Harris County jail. "We need to rethink the wisdom of holding 10,000 people in our jail downtown, particularly those who are still legally innocent."
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Our prisons are terrible, violent places that attempt to break the spirit and deny the humanity of those caged inside. Today, activists on the inside launched a strike against the conditions of their confinement. Learn more here:
#August21
#PrisonStrike
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Today, Civil Rights Corps put Los Angeles County on notice about its illegal contract with surveillance giant Accenture.
Here’s what you need to know 👉🏽
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Today, law professors worked with Civil Rights Corps to publish 10 ethics complaints against current and former New York prosecutors.
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Probation and parole systems are set up for people to fail. Private probation schemes, like the one we're challenging in Giles County, TN, keep people trapped in a cycle of debt and imprisonment so companies can make money. Stat from
@prisonpolicy
#EndPrivateProbation
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Data collected by
@JFormanJr
's class at
@YaleLawSch
shows the NOLA DA has sought warrants to jail >150 crime witnesses & victims since 2010-- often on illegal grounds. Click to learn about the harm this does to witnesses & why we're suing to end the abuse
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NEW CASE: In Hamblen County,
#Tennessee
, alongside partners at
@GeorgetownICAP
, we are bringing a lawsuit challenging their unconstitutional money bail system.
#endmoneybail
#aThread
(1/4)
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Three officers of the Harris County Constable's Office unleashed an attack dog on Mr. Thomas, a Black man who was unarmed and facedown on the ground. In Feb., CRC filed a federal lawsuit. The officers are trying to kick Mr. Thomas out of court, but the facts speak for themselves.
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The reach of the legal system goes far beyond that the 2.2 million people in cages. Whether it's fighting to
#endmoneybail
or challenging the criminalization of poverty, we want to end the mass processing of humans through our legal system. Stat from
@prisonpolicy
#endhumancaging
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🚨Last week, we joined 6 law professors in filing a complaint against
#NY
officials following the officials’ attempts to restrict their 1st Amendment right to speak & advocate freely on a matter of public concern: prosecutorial misconduct.
Complaint:
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An important interview w/ CRC Founder Alec Karakatsanis
@equalityAlec
'...the root causes [of crime] have to do w/ all the ways our society destroys the bonds btwn. human beings: access to housing, early childhood educ., inequality, poverty, mental illness.'
"I want policies that actually make shootings less frequent & bring safety to these communities. And one of the most offensive, grotesque things about copaganda & about the current media system is that it is pointing us toward all of the wrong solutions."
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We are proud to work with
@SPLCenter
,
@ACLU
, and
@ACLUAlabama
on this important lawsuit in the fight to end wealth-based jailing in AL.
Today with
@ACLU
,
@ACLUAlabama
,
@CivRightsCorps
we filed a lawsuit among first to challenge bail's constitutionality
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We have reached a historic settlement with the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office today, officially ending OPDA’s years-long use of fake subpoenas and intimidation to coerce and jail survivors & witnesses of harm.
#NOLA
#Louisiana
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Great primer in
@theappeal
on how the massive fines & fees charged by a legal system that values profit over justice can destroy the lives of low-income Americans and lead to the further criminalization of the poor. Several of our cases are mentioned!
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"...we're not a safe country and the reason is that again all of the evidence shows that the root causes of crime the things that are actually causing crime are things that are structural about our society, like having a place to live..."
@equalityAlec
@msolurin
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📢On behalf of 6 people still in jail, & 100s of others, CRC &
@AbolitionistLC
filed a class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania agnst. 3 Allegheny Co. judges, the jail warden, and probation dept. officials challenging practices of unlawfully caging people on probation violations.
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The for-profit bail industry is a multi-billion $ industry causing generational harm to poor families solely because they can't pay bail amounts.
Check out this important article by our Founder and Exec. Director Alec Karakatsanis
@equalityAlec
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BREAKING: A federal judge has preliminarily approved a $4.5 million settlement in a lawsuit against the City of Ferguson that alleges the City violated thousands of people’s constitutional rights. 🧵
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Civil Rights Corps,
@GeorgetownICAP
and
@WilmerHale
filed a class action lawsuit challenging Prince George’s County, Maryland’s pretrial caging practices.
@Courtwatchpg
has relentlessly fought for change and sent letters to judges – No one listened.
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We won!! Last year, we brought a lawsuit with
@NCLEJustice
@JustCity901
and
@Baker_Donelson
challenging Tennessee's policy of suspending driver's license for nonpayment of court debt. Yesterday, a federal court judge ruled in our favor-- ordering TN to stop suspending licenses.
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“I am a human and I just ask to be treated as one,” says David Dixon, a plaintiff in our lawsuit challenging St. Louis’s unconstitutional cash bail system. Read for more on the case!
@ArchCityDefense
@GeorgetownICAP
@adv_project
@RFKHumanRights
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Class Certification Granted! We are one big step closer to holding the City of Ferguson accountable for extorting its poorest citizens to fund its government. TY
@ArchCityDefense
,
@WhiteCase
, St. Louis U School of Law Clinics and our tenacious plaintiffs!
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We have been fighting for months to get medically vulnerable people released from the Prince George’s County jail in Maryland. We’ve also demanded all people trapped in the jail receive their basic needs - like soap and sanitizer.
#FreeThemAll
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The County Commissioner’s Court in Giles County, TN just unanimously voted to adopt a landmark consent decree that would end misdemeanor private probation in the County.
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"Incarceration worsens health, shortens life expectancy, and exacerbates preexisting medical conditions. Mortality data is crucial to understanding how incarceration heightens health inequities."
Read the full article below:
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🚨🚨🚨CASE UPDATE: We are pleased to hear the
#California
Supreme Court’s
#HumphreyDecision
to uphold the federal constitutional rights to pretrial liberty to not be jailed solely because of inability to pay cash
#bail
.
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Big news! Late yesterday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important ruling striking down the
#moneybail
system in
#NewOrleans
- and, by extension, all of Louisiana. Read it here -->
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SOLIDARITY. UNTIL JUSTICE. 💜⬇️
#aThread
We are horrified by ongoing state-sanctioned violence from the Israeli government on Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza. We are witnessing the oppression of Palestinians of all faiths. (1)
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We're excited to join Rep
@CoriBush
in introducing the
#PeoplesResponse
Act, a bill to shift the public safety paradigm by centering health-based, community-based practices of public safety outside of the carceral system.
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Victory in TN!! Yesterday, a federal court granted our motion for preliminary injunction in our case challenging the TN law that has suspended >1/4 million driver's licenses in the 5 yrs before the lawsuit was filed, taking licenses away from folks too poor to pay traffic tickets
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People will no longer be forced to remain on supervised probation solely because they cannot pay fees. No one should be forced to choose between making county payments or buying food, clothing, shelter, and other basic necessities for themselves and their family.
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Remember all those racist crime bills the Mayor and Council introduced in 2023? They’ve combined them into a single omnibus bill and are trying to pass it despite widespread opposition! 🧵
Email the DC Council and say Don’t Throw DC Under the Crimnibus:
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A major milestone yesterday in our work to end money bail in California! Federal judge rules that the $33,000 bail imposed on our impoverished client is unconstitutional
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Big news from Tennessee! Today, we won a preliminary injunction that will prohibit Giles County from jailing people simply because they cannot afford to pay money bail following arrest for an alleged misdemeanor probation violation.
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CRC is at the Wilson Building today opposing the Secure DC Omnibus bill! Attorney Kiah Duggins shares why this misguided and dangerous legislation will only harm our communities: "We care about public safety, and this bill does nothing to keep us safe."
#UsNotCrimnibus
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"The US is the only country other than the Philippines that has a private, for-profit money bail industry .. our legal system determines who is in a jail cell & who is home w/ their families on the basis of who has access to cash." -
@equalityAlec
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If approved by the federal Court, this will finally end the practice of collecting court debts and restitution from people who are poor in Giles County.
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Instances like this are why we call to
#defundthepolice
and invest in holistic solutions for our communities. Police abuse their power, make our communities less safe, and are extremely difficult to hold accountable.
#TreatTexansRight
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This effort was a powerful collaboration with partners
@Public_Justice
, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP, and Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, LLP, and
@JusticeLANow
.
Read Judge Riff's decision on our website:
💥BREAKING VICTORY💥: LA Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff found it unconstitutional for LA County and City of LA to jail people between arrest and their first court date simply because they couldn’t afford bail. (🧵tldr at the end)
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This consent decree will stop the County from using probation fees to fund its probation system -- whether private or government-run. The County also will never be able to hire a “user-funded” for-profit company to run probation again!
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We won! Today's federal court decision in Louisiana paves the way to end the unconstitutional practice of locking people up because they are too poor to pay.
#endmoneybail
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🎉✊🏿 We won a preliminary injunction in our Dallas County bail lawsuit!!! The court’s decision confirms that Dallas County’s money bail system in flagrantly unconstitutional.
#endmoneybail
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Federal court rules New Orleans debtors' prisons are unconstitutional, finding that the City's court-funding scheme creates a conflict of interest for its judges and jails the poor for their inability to pay. An important step forward!
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➡️We just sued the Prince George’s County Dept. of Corrections.
The county jail has ignored all guidance from the CDC regarding
#COVID19
. A 23-hour lockdown traps people in close quarters with others who may be sick. If conditions persist, people will die.
#Stopcovid19injails
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When prosecutors break the law - with no consequences - just to win a case, people’s lives are at stake.
People have a right to life and liberty, but prosecutors don’t have a “right” to prosecute & cage. This is the first step towards shrinking the power of prosecutors.
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Police data in Nassau County NY showed of the 2,641 people arrested & released without bail from April 1- June 30, 195 were re-arrested - a recidivism rate of 7 percent.
#EndCashBail
Impossible to overstate the significance of this. A GOP county executive in NY issued an executive order to collect data to prove bail reform was a "woke" disaster for safety. Result: His county was named the safest community in America. 2 years in a row.
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"If bail was meant to be punitive, then the whole concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' would be... meaningless."
@adamjohnsonnyc
writes for
@theappeal
: Bail isn't supposed to be a punishment. Why does the media keep acting like it is?
#endmoneybail
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At Rikers, 167 detained people, 114 staff members, and 23 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus.
“What we’re going through is inhumane...We’re left for dead. We’re just stuck here.”
#stopcovid19injails
#stopthespread
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Today a federal judge ruled in favor of the Accountability NY collaborative on a partial summary judgment related to important 1st Amendment issues
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We're joining the
@adv_project
in launching our DC Police Abuse Litigation Corps. We will be training attorneys in the DC area who want to hold police accountable.
Interested attorneys apply here: … & send questions to policeabuselitigationcorps
@gmail
.com
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Slavery still exists in this country, but we have a chance to end that. Text “EndTheException” to 52886 now!
#Juneteenth
#EndTheException
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Do you know of a prosecutor who misled the judge or jury? Or kept secret evidence that should have been turned over to the defense?
Do you want to learn about ways to hold them accountable? Attend our webinar!
🗓️ Thursday, April 25th
⏰ 6-7 PM
🔗 RSVP:
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"We're constantly being told that there are all of these threats around us, but the threats that the media and the police and certain large corporations want us to be focused on are not the things that actually most determine our safety." Great interview with
@equalityAlec
TONIGHT:
@equalityAlec
of
@CivRightsCorps
calls out liberal media and politicians for shaping the narrative that supports police funding and “copaganda”
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🎙TUNE IN: Our founder
@equalityalec
joined Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting to discuss the truth about 'violent crime' and mainstream media coverage of the
#police
.
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🧵Last week, the enforcement period for our agreement with
#PGCounty
, MD ended. This leaves the jail with no formal monitor to ensure the people at the county jail are being kept safe from
#COVID19
.
🚨Our team has already heard of an outbreak from the people on the inside.
🚨CASE UPDATE: After 10 long months we have signed a settlement agreement with the
#PGCounty
, Maryland Department of Corrections about how they will keep people in the jail safe as
#Covid19
continues to spread.
#GaspingForJustice
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We’re thrilled to see the federal court order New Orleans to stop putting human beings in cages solely because they’re poor. These victories will have a major impact on the lives of somany people in New Orleans and beyond.
#endmoneybail
#endcriminalizationofpoverty
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📣Are you ready for
#PRADAY
?
The People's Response Act is the first piece of federal legislation that will advance non-carceral solutions for community safety that we are all seeking to build.
Join us in turning a protest into action:
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... days of missed work and income, a slew of onerous and expensive pretrial supervision conditions, and the irreversible stress, humiliation, and fear inflicted by a felony prosecution. Four months after the arrest, the case was dismissed.
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We are dedicated to holding police accountable and dismantling white supremacist systems. To share this video or learn more about our police accountability work, click here:
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12,272: the # of people who have been released from the Harris County jail in Houston as a result of the federal injunction filed in our bail lawsuit a little more than a year ago. This is why we’re challenging wealth-based detention in TX & in other states across the county.
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According to our Complaint, the officers submitted false and misleading statements under oath to a magistrate, judge, and prosecutor in an effort to cover up the wrongful arrest.
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Then, in 2023, a small group of County employees signed a secretive, massive contract with Accenture to take over redesigning pretrial services.
The contract was not publicly bid. This is EXTREMELY unusual and reeks of corruption.
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For years, judges in New Orleans were incentivized to extract as much $$ as they could from poor defendants because the money raised went back towards funding the court system. In both of our cases, the federal court ruled that this is an unconstitutional conflict of interest.
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The county of Los Angeles has worked harder to circumvent the will of its own people than it has to implement the good policy they voted for. Sloppy consultant contracts with no intent to achieve good outcomes. This is a money grab for the policing and surveillance industry.
Residents overwhelmingly voted for community-based alternatives to incarceration. Accenture, an unaccountable surveillance consultant with ties to police and ICE, is now at the wheel. 12 highly-paid contractors will determine the future of LA County’s jail system. Learn more:
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Los Angeles County residents voted for Community-Based Alternatives NOT illegal backroom deals with multinational surveillance conglomerates.
Ask the Board to cancel the contract:
@kathrynbarger
@HildaSolis
@SupJaniceHahn
@LinseyPHorvath
@hollyjmitchell
@LACountyCEO
@LACJCOD
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Every day in the US 1000s of people are jailed pretrial solely because they can't afford bail. Join CRC and
@TXCivilRights
today on IG Live to learn more about the harms of $ bail and what we can do to change it.
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"...the fact that prosecutors continue to remove jurors of color and face no accountability is an indictment of not only prosecutors but of our entire legal system,”- Bina Ahmad, CRC Senior Attorney
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In 2020, LA voters passed some of the most progressive legislation in the country to challenge mass incarceration. But County bureaucrats dragged their feet during implementation.
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Check out this NEW article by CRC attorneys Bina Ahmad and Kiah Duggins in
@theappeal
👉🏽 U.S. Police Dogs Originated From Slavery—and Must Be Abolished.
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This means that TWICE in the past week, federal court judges have found that major elements of New Orleans’ court system— that were previously unchallenged — violate the Constitution and unfairly target the poor.
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In February 2020, our client was driving home when police pulled him over for a traffic violation and asked him to participate in multiple field sobriety tests. He agreed. According to our Complaint, the officers concluded that our client was not intoxicated or impaired.
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💜 Powerful words from
@TheAmandaGorman
.
There is so much work left to be done. Accepting what is and staying silent is complicity.
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Our lawsuit claims that after they determined that our client should be released, Officer 3 began pressuring him to take a voluntary breath test.
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CRC and partners
@OsbornMaledon
and
@CovingtonLLP
law firms successfully negotiated a settlement on behalf of Maricopa County, Az. residents unable to pay the $1000+ it took to complete a drug-court diversion program run by Treatment Assessment Screening Center (TASC).
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The legal community rallies in support of transparency when it comes to prosecutorial misconduct. Dozens of law profs sign open letter in response to the handling of complaints filed by
#Accountability
NY / law professors. TY
@NYItCouldHappen
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Join The Fight To Invest In Communities, Not More Cops!
Tonight, August 10th, at 6PM ET
Register Now:
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You can't reform a white supremacist, anti-Black, anti-poor institution. This is not the answer to our calls for justice.
The
#BREATHEAct
is what we must support if we want to reimagine public safety.
The Justice in Policing Act pushed by Democrats is one of the more dangerous "reforms" in memory. It is classic example of "reform" that strengthens the racist police bureaucracy. We should join Movement for Black Lives in opposing it with all our might.
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Prosecutorial misconduct occurs in courtrooms across the US. It is crucial for journalists to shine a light on this but it can be tricky to cover. Journalists are invited to our webinar TOMORROW with exoneree George Bell and reporter George Joseph.
RSVP:
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Don't miss tonight's episode of
@TheDailyShow
! CRC Founder and Exec. Director
@equalityAlec
shares some powerful insights on Copaganda and criminalizing poverty.
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The LA County Accenture contract is illegal for several reasons: 👉🏽
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1. The contract unlawfully circumvented the competitive bidding process.
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GREAT news out of Virginia. Lawmakers voted to eliminate driver's license suspensions for unpaid court fines and fees. 👏👏🏽👏🏿
Read our official statement on the incredible victory yesterday at the General Assembly we share w/Sen.
@BillStanley
,
@JennMcClellanVA
,
@VaBlackCaucus
,
@LaRock4Delegate
,
@AFPVA
,
@VPLC
& so many more. Nearly 1MIL Virginians will gain relief:
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Thousands of prosecutors, sheriffs, governors, and attorney generals will be elected in 2020.
These offices set the policies that shape the criminal legal system and much more.
#VOTE
#Election2020
#Vote2020
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Our client suffered through the trauma of two nights in jail, a forcible blood extraction and examination (which later reported a BAC below the legal limit), ...
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2. Even if the County were legally allowed to grant exceptions to the public bidding process, the Accenture contract SIGNIFICANTLY exceeds the new limits they carved out in various Board motions and it followed no lawful, transparent exemption process.
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This is inhumane and unacceptable.
People trapped behind bars should not be working free and then left to suffer in the middle of an environmental crisis.
On this
#LaborDay
we must
#EndTheException
and abolish slavery.
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🚨 BREAKING: This morning, with
@TXCivilRights
, we asked a federal court in
#HarrisCounty
to issue a Temporary Restraining Order that would order the County to stop detaining people solely because they are too poor to pay cash bail.
#stopcovid19injails
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We also claim that when our client questioned the purpose of a breath test, Officer 3 abruptly directed Officer 1 - his junior partner - to just "take him to jail."
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Every day thousands of people are caged in jails across the country, simply because they cannot afford bail. Join us and
@TXCivilRights
this Thursday, Sept. 1, on Instagram Live to talk Money Bail 101. What we need to know. How we can bring change. Mark your calendar!
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3. The contract is a gross misuse of Measure J funds. Measure J calls for direct community investment & alternatives to incarceration. It doesn’t allow for significant spending on consultants. And it certainly doesn’t allow for spending that would lead to increased incarceration.
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Today, we're launching the
#FreetoDrive
campaign! Follow along on this thread to learn about how debt-based driver's license suspensions impact the lives of millions of people across the country and why they must stop.
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“We deserve to live under a constitution that will protect us rather than continue the legacy of slavery, torture, and dehumanization.” - Kamau Allen, Abolish Slavery National Network
#EndTheException
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Bail reform works! A new study shows bail reform efforts in Harris County, Tx have helped prevent innocent people from taking plea deals, saved the county millions of $$ and demonstrated a reduction in crime rates!
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