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Our goal is to end solitary confinement in all U.S. prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities within 10 years. #SolitaryIsTorture

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🚌 Not every bus ride is about transportation. For many, it's about transformation. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks to the Freedom Riders to the Climate Action Caravans, busses have played a central role in making change in America. A bus can move people, but
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Swipe through for an overview of the context, response, and results of the strike, and be sure to check out the 6-time Best Documentary winner @TheStrikeFilm from filmmakers @JoeBillMunoz and @lucasguilkey. Watch it on @IndependentLens @PBS or request a screening event at the
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These four survivors β€” together a group known as The Short Corridor Collective β€” led 29,000 people locked up across 22 California prisons and 4 out-of-state prisons on a historic 2-month strike.
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🧡On July 8, 2013, four men in solitary at Pelican Bay kicked off a massive hunger strike to protest indefinite solitary confinement and other horrific conditions.
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πŸŽ‰ Victory in Shelby County, Tennessee! Shelby County @MayorLeeHarris signed an executive order to adopt the Mandela Rules in the county's Division of Corrections. "Excessive solitary confinement can be cruel and undermine a person's sense of self, and even their ability to
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On @LastWeekTonight, John Oliver recently devoted an entire episode to the juvenile justice system, with a significant segment on the torture of solitary and the additional harm to youth that extended isolation causes. Swipe through for key moments, and watch the full episode
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β›½ Learn more and sign up for updates to ensure you don't miss a thing at We can't wait to see you on the road! 🧳. #JourneyToJustice.#TransformationNotTorture.#TortureAwarenessMonth
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This fall, we're hitting the road on a 17-city, 11-state tour of the nation to end solitary confinement. Each stop will include a suite of one-of-a-kind, survivor-led events and celebrations combining art and organizing, designed to educate and activate movement veterans and
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This month and every month, we are so #proud of the anti-solitary movement's history as one that includes and is led by the 2SLGBTQIA+ community! 🌈. #Pride2025 #TortureAwarenessMonth #TransformationNotTorture
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Swipe through for some crucial information that contextualizes #PrideMonth with the violence that gender & sexual minorities have always faced at the hands of the criminal legal system.
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2SLGBTQIA+ people have always been at the heart of the anti-solitary movement, both as leaders and as survivors. 🌱
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Dive into these questions (and many more) alongside our friends at @blklivesmatter this #TortureAwarenessMonth. Sign up for the 4-part email education series at the link in our bio!. #Juneteenth #TortureAwarenessMonth #TransformationNotTorture #BlackLivesMatter.
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What does Juneteenth mean for Americans today, as we continue fighting against slavery within our criminal legal system? What will it take for the United States to finally abolish slavery, once and for all?.
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🧡 160 years ago today, enslaved people in Galveston, TX finally received word of their freedom, over 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation had legally abolished slavery. A mere 6 months later, Congress legalizing slavery as punishment for a crime in the 13th Amendment.
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Read the letter, and the @NYAmNews reporting on it, at the link in our bio.
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"Done appropriately," they write, "separation can be a legitimate penological tool to keep all people in prisons and jails safe; solitary confinement never is." . In addition to the harm solitary inflicts on people subjected to it, they cite recent data and firsthand Senate.
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12 former corrections Secretaries, officials, staff, and other experts write to dispel "the myth that solitary is necessary for safety" in a letter to @SenatorDurbin. Authors include the former Secretaries of the KS, PA, and WA Depts of Corrections.
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Did you know that solitary in the US didn't start in prisons? Its roots are in slavery. This Torture Awareness Month, we're partnering with @Blklivesmatter to bring you the truth about solitary's past, present, and future. Swipe through to see what we've got in store for you, and
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This #TortureAwarenessMonth, stay tuned for a bunch of opportunities coming up to join the fight to end the use of solitary confinement, a practice deemed torture by the United Nations for decades. Announcing soon! . #SolitaryIsTorture #TransformationNotTorture
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