We love seeing our community members with artwork from The ART Gallery artists 🎉
If you’ve purchased from our shop, we’d love to see your photos and videos! 🥳
Thank you, Larry, for supporting our work and the artists!
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Most commissary spending is on food, because prison meals are small and notoriously unhealthy.
Lots of this $ comes from the *families* of incarcerated people. We're forcing them to subsidize the prison system.
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🗞️ Outside/In is a monthly column by Claire Tak about what it’s like to have a loved one in prison from a sister’s unique perspective.
From sending commissary money to visiting prison for the first time, Claire shares tips, advice and of course, stories.
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Please take a moment this week to think about how the U.S. puts Black people in cages 6 times the rate of South Africa in Apartheid. Each year in a cell takes 2 years off life expectancy. Think about how these horrors are normalized and justified by the news we consume.
We’re excited to announce our 2023 ART Gallery event where we will showcase art from 6 selected incarcerated artists 🎨
The ART Gallery event will take place @TiaChucha on Saturday, July 8th, at 2:00PM!
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All are welcome 🥳
Purchase a postcard bundle and directly support @InitiateJustice and the incarcerated artists who created the art! 🎊
Shop via our fb/ig shop @initiatejustice or @abolitionis_#postcards#artivism#abolition
i remember i wrote my brother a letter while he was in jail with black ink and i pored my heart out yall. he wrote me back saying he couldn’t get my mail bc i used pen or whatever and that was the moment that radicalized me i stg 😭😭🤣 i was 8 and it’s been fuck the feds since
Daily reminder that CA’s prison population was reduced by 70,000 people over the past decade, yet prison spending has increased by nearly 40% over the same time span.
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Episode 7 is now available everywhere you get your podcasts!
To access the transcript, visit https://t.co/4wGR2onbph
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On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by @equalityAlec. Together, they discuss the history of protests and how they're represented in the media. Alec is a civil rights lawyer and former public defender, and the founder and executive director of @CivRightsCorps
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Selena Miranda, an @initiatejustice community organizer. Together, they discuss houselessness, drugs, and their conflation and portrayal in the media.
Episode 6 is available on all streaming platforms.
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I don’t know who or what a “criminal” is. I’m not trying to be facetious, but how can we understand or define that concept outside of racist dog whistles or political narratives?