Howard League NZ

Smart on Justice and Prison Reform. Leagues in Canterbury, Wellington & Dunedin.

[RNZ @radionz]

#BREAKING Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has raised the Covid-19 alert to level 3 nationwide.

https://t.co/9qPPCgpYEx

[Prison_Health 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @Prison_Health]

Judge Orders Medical Panel to Evaluate Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner https://t.co/472L5qdhv9

[Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission @NZHumanRights]

Breaking 🔽 https://t.co/JuitGRCOzz

[Prison_Health 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @Prison_Health]

How Prison Changes Your Politics. Incarcerated Americans on how their views have evolved behind bars. https://t.co/YF9ap9Eh2T

[Howard League NZ @HowardLeagueNZ]

US: "In these facilities, it can also be difficult to follow the most basic prevention advice – regular hand washing – because clean water and soap aren’t guaranteed." https://t.co/61Y1DY7vFm

[Howard League NZ @HowardLeagueNZ]

Brazil: "Hundreds of prisoners have escaped from four semi-open prisons in São Paulo state in the south-east of Brazil after Easter prison holidays were cancelled and restrictions on visitors tightened because of coronavirus." https://t.co/2woQZc8huI

[Howard League NZ @HowardLeagueNZ]

Iran: "There are growing concerns for prisoners held in Iran’s overcrowded jails,where healthcare is poor..The government says it has released half of the country’s“security”prisoners on furlough to arrest any potential Covid-19 spread" https://t.co/en1Sqzr3to

[Howard League NZ @HowardLeagueNZ]

NZ homeless: "the people were asking where they were supposed to go,&were,in her opinion,"very articulate, not causing trouble and certainly not stoned"..also distressed&angry as they had to leave their belongings,which..included things like blankets." https://t.co/XhXFgMltTz

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

If your local jail is suspending in-person visits due to COVID-19, we drafted a letter you can send to your sheriff or warden demanding that they make phone and video calls free:
https://t.co/ZLeDElw38A

[WPB @ICPRWPB]

'Come back Monday, OK?' Hundreds of prisoners escape in Brazil amid Covid-19 anger https://t.co/vIyKevtfOl

[Prison_Health 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @Prison_Health]

Activists who have long called for a ban on building new county jail cells rallied downtown in advance of the Board of Supervisors’ unanimous vote for a “care first, jails last” plan. https://t.co/UmOg4CanlA

[Prison_Health 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @Prison_Health]

Michigan Agrees to Pay $80 Million in Prison Sex Abuse Case. A complaint filed by 500 currently & formerly incarcerated youth alleged that they were assaulted & harassed by incarcerated adults & corrections staff in adult prisons & jails across the state https://t.co/3dlQevXBJe

[Prison_Health 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @Prison_Health]

Care First, Jails Last: Health and Racial Justice Strategies for Safer Communities. Los Angeles County Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group Final Report PDF https://t.co/E1jpGzkwAf

[Howard League NZ @HowardLeagueNZ]

NZ: "She saw a male officer grab a prisoner by the hair when she refused to get up from a dining table and pull her from her seat. ... Another time she spoke up when bread rations were withheld from prisoners for no reason." https://t.co/ouhuMy3vX3

[Howard League NZ @HowardLeagueNZ]

NZ: @Jubes11 "we are putting lethal weapons in the hands of police when..they use them mostly against Māori..that is really hōhā..we are putting racist policies into systemic practice of police - knowing that it tells me that Māori lives don't matter." https://t.co/Ao8GPsx1HB

[Sage Criminology @SageCriminology]

'Introduction to #Criminology: Why Do They Do It?' offers a contemporary and integrated discussion of key criminological theories to help students understand crime in the 21st century. https://t.co/DH3YlMXsfO

[Justice for Youth (Archived) @justiceforyouth]

The danger of infection is high in these crowded, unsanitary facilities—and the risk for people inside and outside of them is exacerbated by the “churn” of people being admitted and released at high rates. #juvenilejustice https://t.co/x7M31rPZns

[@citizenactionny.org on bluesky @citizenactionny]

Continuing to lock people up during this crisis is inhumane, unsafe, and puts us all at risk.

@NYGovCuomo needs to stop trying to rollback bail reform and release aging people in prisons who are at risk. #NoRollbacks #FreeOurElders

https://t.co/wc4aFZseya

[The Appeal @theappeal]

Kim Foxx, first elected as Chicago’s top prosecutor four years ago, says she plans to do far more to reshape the legal system in the years to come. But in tomorrow’s Democraticy primary, she faces 3 opponents who have sharply criticized her reform efforts. https://t.co/FQeEv12wn2

[Howard League NZ @HowardLeagueNZ]

US: "Under the pretense of job-skills training, prisoners are being made to manufacture these and other goods at a fraction of cost. The result is a potentially life-preserving health-care tool that many of them would likely be denied should the circumstances arise."

[Hannah Graham @DrHannahGraham]

'More than perhaps ever before, keeping as many people out of jails and prisons as possible is as much a public health concern as a moral one.'

Pandemics Are a Great Reason to De-carcerate.
#COVIDー19 #coronavirus
https://t.co/NZyPKZC1CK