Raymond M. Williams Jr.
@raywilliams80
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⛓Prisoner, social justice worker, dreamer. I hope you will find my story interesting and educational ⛓Contact me on Securus: WA 767974
Monroe, WA
Joined May 2020
“I face living my entire existence in a country that’s lecturing the world about democracy, while having never participated in it.” Read excerpts from my testimony on HB 2030 in this piece from @WAStateStandard
Prisoners would get to vote under bill backed by formerly incarcerated WA lawmaker #waleg
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In Washington state, prisoners are organizing with community for the right to vote from prison. Hear our words in this video from the public hearing on HB 2030 (beginning 49:18).
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Public Hearing: HB 1692: Creating student advisory groups. HB 2209: Celebrating lunar new year. HB 2099: Concerning state identification cards for persons in
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I was charged as an adult for stealing guns at 16 years old. This crime is currently being used to keep me in prison until I die. Hear my testimony to Washington legislature on SB 6063 in this video (1:47:25) as I plea for the lives of myself and others. https://t.co/AuIGxM16Kc
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Public Hearing: SB 5974: Concerning the disposition of unenforceable legal financial obligations other than restitution imposed by a court or an agent of the
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Are you following the writers in my incarcerated writers group? If not, you should! Get the latest stories from behind the walls. Last year they published over 100 articles. @AntoineEDavis
@KevinLightRoth
@AaronOlson1986
@raywilliams80
@DKJackson20
@jonmkirkpatrick
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Marvel Cooke Fellow @raywilliams80 explores how the closure of a prison in Washington State has divided a community of abolitionist organizers. Read the full story:
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When the Washington State DOC announced it would close the Washington State Reformatory, it caused a rift between incarcerated abolitionists.
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Sexual abuse is often a taboo topic for men, especially Black men. Writing this article made me reflect & recognize the harm I've endured. Abuse affects entire communities, not just individuals. We cannot tolerate a society that protects abusers and silences survivors.
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"Per a member of a transnational trafficking organization, there’s no financial incentive to put fentanyl in cocaine. Which doesn't stop it from happening by accident." Fentanyl Isn’t Being Cut Into the Cocaine Supply. Here’s Why. By @jonmkirkpatrick: https://t.co/KpPEJo19T5
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I’m an incarcerated journalist. Today Securus, a predatory prison communication co, silenced journalists. With no warning they deleted all drafts of writing. Years of work. Manuscripts. Articles. Everything gone. We’re no longer able to save drafts. Now near impossible to write.
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State Raised: Raymond Williams Part 4 The link to this gripping four-part Podcast series is in my Bio above - Please give it the time it deserves and listen. The State is your parent when you are State Raised – except when you screw-up and then suddenly, there is no-one in your
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Link to this recording is in my Bio above. State Raised: Raymond Williams Part 3 Reality dictates the quality of prison recordings and this one is not great at all but the content is worth putting up with a bad sound quality – prison reality. Ray is just one in far too many kids
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“I know my son as I know him—before the state kept him from any contact with me for more than 10 years. And I know his arrest was a direct result of my absence in his life.” My latest for @Slate:
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Intergenerational incarceration has left an indelible impact on our lives.
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State Raised: Raymond Williams Part 1of4 Check out the link in my Bio and on Spotify. What is the meaning of the term “State Raised”? As you listen to Aaron and Ray speak about the “State Raised” and “School to Prison Pipeline” phenomenon, keep a few facts in mind, bearing in
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State Raised: Raymond Williams Part 2 Link to the audio is in my Bio above..... Please listen. What is the meaning of the term “State Raised”? As you listen to Aaron and Ray speak about the “State Raised” phenomenon – are there any benefits being raised by the state? Well, Ray
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MUTUAL AID REQUEST! Big warm welcome home to @UnCagedCritique. We are helping with some funds as she starts up her life and continues her writing career from out here. If you can send any money her way, please send it to Venmo account Emily-Nonko with the line "For Christy."
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@raywilliams80's latest for @theprogressive is about the shift he's witnessed as his prison got access to tablets and e-messaging, and all the data that @SecurusTech @Aventiv_Tech is collecting as it happens. Read it here: https://t.co/dcIbtBCrF7
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A tech company gave us new devices at a Washington State prison facility—with all of the promises and pitfalls that they can bring.
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When tablets first came to my prison, it changed life inside -- but nothing in this world is free. Read about it in my latest publication with @theprogressive.
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A tech company gave us new devices at a Washington State prison facility—with all of the promises and pitfalls that they can bring.
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Countless former foster youth populate our prison system. These State Raised prisoners experience incarceration differently than those with families. Read about it in my latest piece with @JewishCurrents. https://t.co/Dnp1ptIedq
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Prisons sometimes temper their isolating nature by connecting prisoners to family, but State Raised individuals are still excluded.
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"We may have been raised in these institutions. That does not mean we want to die here" Read incarcerated writer @raywilliams80's powerful dispatch on how prisons' emphasis on "family" marginalizes State Raised individuals, who grew up in institutions https://t.co/qcHGRaKEzc
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Prisons sometimes temper their isolating nature by connecting prisoners to family, but State Raised individuals are still excluded.
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@raywilliams80 writes for @JewishCurrents about state-raised individuals and their experience inside prison, with a gut-wrenching illustration by incarcerated artist Corey Devon Arthur. https://t.co/DzSfcYjsWl
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Prisons sometimes temper their isolating nature by connecting prisoners to family, but State Raised individuals are still excluded.
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