Stefanie Grossano
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Melissa Lucio was interrogated by investigators trained to extract confessions, not to find the truth. When psychological pressure and coercion are applied with clinical precision, people buckle and admit to things that never happened.
independent.co.uk
This is one of the most tragic cases I’ve come across in my 40-year career
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Human Rights Watch opposes the death penalty in all circumstances because of its inherent cruelty. The death penalty is universally plagued with arbitrariness, prejudice, and error. #MelissaLucio
theguardian.com
As Melissa Lucio’s execution date approaches, concern that an innocent woman is to be sent to her death reaches fever pitch
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No matter how they're designed, prisons are inherently traumatic. Listen to formerly incarcerated women and end this project now @HDR_Inc. #LifeatHDR
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Even when they acknowledge separating mothers from newborns is cruel, the "trauma-informed" prisoncrat solution is to build prison and jail nurseries, *bringing infants into cages* instead of sending women home. #FreeHer #PrimaryCaretakers #NoNewWomensPrison #LifeatHDR
One thing politicians don't talk about is that there are a lot pregnant women who give birth in jails whose babies are forcibly taken from them by the police solely because the women are too poor to pay cash bail. Structural violence.
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Another week and @HDR_Inc still has not gotten the message that they are profiting off of the harm of incarceration. There is no such thing as a trauma informed prison. Listen to formerly incarcerated women and wash your hands of this project now #NoNewWomensPrison
Don’t design a new women’s prison @HDR_Inc - listen to formerly incarcerated women and pull out of the project NOW! Stop profiting off the suffering of communities! #NoNewWomensPrison #LifeAtHDR
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There’s no such thing as innovative incarceration. There’s no such thing as a trauma informed prison. You’re profiting off of Black and Brown communities. @HDR_Inc Board @EricLKeen @DougWignall pull out of this project now! #FreeHer #NoNewWomensPrison #LifeAtHDR
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We have the chance to pause the construction of new jails and prisons in MA and invest in what people actually need. My legislators @WBrownsberger should cosponsor HD.3824 and SD.1774 for a 5 year moratorium on prison construction #ReimaginingCommunities #NoNewWomensPrison
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At the start of the pandemic, @MassGovernor said re COVID in prisons, "We're gonna keep doing what we're doing." Where has that gotten us? 170 cases and counting at MCI-Norfolk. An almost 70% positive rate at MCI-Framingham in the spring. #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth
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RIGHT NOW: protesters are at Mass Dept of Public Health demanding they immediately reduce the prison population to save the lives of incarcerated people. @massDPH, @massgovernor has failed our loved ones. You must #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth
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Our incarcerated loved ones have endured inhumane lockdowns for more than 7 months with very little time out of their cells or out in fresh air. Our people are struggling and suffering. The only safe, sane response to this humanitarian crisis is decarceration. #FreeOurFamilies
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I'm joining @PplNotPrisons in calling on @MassDPH to end the outbreak in MA prisons/jails. Release our elders. End opt-outs for guard testing, enforce staff PPE usage. Ban pepper spray. New masks daily. This is the LEAST you can do. https://t.co/P9ieI9lSJK
#PeopleNotPrisons
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Final flyer with updated location!! This is the one to share people, let’s gooo 🔥
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ALERT - NEW PETITION! We have put out our demands for the CITY & BPD! DEFUND the police & Fund Communities! Disband the Gang Unit and the BRIC! ERASE the Gang Database! BAN PRETEXTUAL STOPS! COPS OUT OF SCHOOLS! SIGN NOW! https://t.co/LB7rd42snP
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Black Trans Lives Matter. And this week we were robbed of the lives of Rem’mie Fells & Riah Milton
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At the hearing right now I asked if their is empirical evidence on if the gang database reduces crime? I also asked which agencies are allowed to access the data? Sadly BRIC did not send a representative so neither question was answered. #bospoli
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Racial justice AND real public safety requires taking money away from policing and reinvesting that money into Black and Brown communities. I'm asking the @BOSCityCouncil to defund the BPD by cutting the overtime and BRIC budget. #DefundPolice #DefundRacism
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Massachusetts is about to approve $30M in capital investments for the DOC, $95M for cop cruisers, and $50M for a new women's prison. No more $$ for the carceral state. Invest in real safety and wellbeing for Black and Brown communities #defundracism @SenMikeMoore
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We need to be marching in Brookline, in Newton, in Sharon—protest organizer says, calling on white folks to “radically transform” their communities.
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