Dallas is in the middle of some controversy over banning short-term rentals as is being exposed by The MergeTV over on YouTube. The decision affects a lot of people who use their houses and extra rooms to make money and has caused a lot of disruption. https://t.co/2TmlluL1oW
How a criminal justice reform effort collapsed in Washington, D.C.—with @POTUS's help. The bill would have addressed long-held inconsistencies in the law using recommendations adopted in other states https://t.co/KiCtPQKKPf
The US has a massive incarceration rate, and imprisonment devastates families and people; it's time to change how our legal system treats people and what justice means. #justice#prison#legal#endprisons
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I just asked my lawmakers to continue working to implement the #FirstStepAct so federal prisoners can access transformative programming to prepare for #reentry in our communities. YOU can take action here: https://t.co/TsUdMrH0Xn #SecondChances#JusticethatRestores@JusticeReform
We created Mediazona eight years ago, shortly after we got out of prison. We wanted to create a media that would shed light on Russia’s criminal injustice, police brutality, prison conditions and endless state crimes of Russia.
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Turning prisoners into cheap labor creates a grim incentive to add yet more people to the grinder with little regard for their rights and their humanity.
Putting prisoners to work is modern-day slavery; it doesn't act as any sort of correctional medium or mechanism for providing skills, instead, it's being used to batter already oppressed minorities into further submission. https://t.co/sMPFO6286r
This needs to end in the worst possible way. Prisoners have already been stripped of their freedom, which is the punishment proscribed by law; to also strip them of due payment and basic humane treatment during that work is beyond unacceptable.
The arrested developer is @alex_pertsev.
A 29-year-old dev who wrote code to help ppl keep their crypto transactions private.
"My husband didn't do anything illegal". His wife is in shock.
They're jailing coders now.
There's a line.
They crossed it.
No words to describe the anger I have for assholes like Aaron.
❗️Ross Ulbricht was never charged with attempted murder - https://t.co/49mPW3XqPr
@RealRossU is serving a double life sentence for a non-violent offence.
He deserves to be free. #FreeRoss 🕊@FreeRossDAO
Research from @pewtrusts shows that even short-term jail stays have a detrimental impact on a person’s employment, housing, custody of children, ultimately leading to #recidivism. https://t.co/F1u7Foe1Jt
The incoming director of the Bureau of Prisons Colette Peters will inherit a system mired in dysfunction, corruption, and casual civil rights abuses https://t.co/fvz1LH1vRl
Hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people are being endangered in the heatwave, according to @truthout, due to lack of A/C and poor cooling https://t.co/8grCFbBg5A
The bias of the source makes that statement a bit questionable, but also on point is that any community that builds its economy on the backs of prison labor should rethink itself. It would give itself greater incentives to send more people to prison.