MassIIA

MA Incarcerated Individual Advocacy (MassIIA)

We advocate for the humane treatment for incarcerated individuals in the state of Massachusetts.

[Elle Michelle, MBA @lmbbos]

New Massachusetts Rules Would Eliminate Handwritten Letters in Prison https://t.co/kevvwNorHu via @truthout

[Black and Pink Massachusetts @BlackAndPinkMA]

This is your last day to tell the DOC & @EOPSS #HandsOffOurMail!
NO to photocopying and shredding legal documents
NO to making paper mail contraband
NO to surveillance logs
NO to the intrusion into the lives of prisoners!
Send an automated email saying NO: https://t.co/NQvxWC8Evz

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

An emergency motion has been filed with the SJC to release prisoners to home confinement in the wake of new COVID-19 cases at state prisons, & the non-COVID-19 death of a plaintiff who repeatedly requested a home confinement program judges said DOC has power to implement. #mapoli

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Looks like an increasingly powerful electorate to me! 🤗

[Adnan Khan @akhan1437]

For those who tweet “let out people who are innocent and have non-violent crimes!” in their best advocate voice, I want to encourage you to reevaluate your advocacy and keep learning.

[Adnan Khan @akhan1437]

Insane. A prosecutor, who once worked at a zoo, recounting his experience with a MONKEY—and he’s relating that experience with the monkey to his job as a prosecutor. This is in his professional bio.

Please read this unbelievable thread.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

Trump and his political agent the POSTMASTER GENERAL are pulling apart the US Postal Service authorized by the Constitution. How can Republicans in Congress allow this to happen? 630,000 angry employees. Rural America in peril without USPS.

[Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @RepPressley]

Currently and formerly incarcerated individuals have a right to vote.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

The new head of the USPS, Louis DeJoy, is a Trump man through and though (and major donor). He is now busy making sure USPS can't handle voting in this year's presidential election. The fix is in. This cannot stand.

[Chris Faraone @Fara1]

A police source tells me every cop he knows, along with their family members, is calling state lawmakers relentlessly, plus emailing and showing up to scream about police reform. Having covered their (official and unofficial) lobbying efforts for years I'm sure it's true.

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

As much of Massachusetts continues to reopen, the same loosening of restrictions is not present at the state’s prisons.

https://t.co/EayyluovyN #mapoli

[MassIIA @MassIIAofficial]

@elizabethdmatos It’s heartbreaking we need to do better

[Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt]

Suicide at Walpole facility raises questions about continued lockdown, isolation in Massachusetts state prisons.

https://t.co/EayyluovyN #mapoli

[Elizabeth Matos @elizabethdmatos]

The Commonwealth recently invested 5.4million to incarcerate and treat people for substance use disorder who have NOT even been charged with crimes instead of investing in community based treatment for them.
https://t.co/P4VjDgJEbw

[New England Innocence Project @NEInnocence]

It’s a little known fact that many DA’s are more resistant to innocence cases because they upend a myth of their work: that convictions mean public safety & justice. That’s one reason prosecutors so often offer our clients pleas instead. We stand with you @rabiasquared.

[MaAgainstSolitary @StopMaSolitary]

For Mother’s Day, @WorthRises’ ED @BiancaTylek wrote an opinion piece in @Essence about the injustice of prison phone calls through the lens of mothers, particularly Black mamas, who rely on these calls to connect w/ their children. It’s an important read. https://t.co/peTZpd6NQJ

[Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts @PLSMA]

Incarcerated people and their families have been deeply impacted by COVID-19, and have been enduring solitary confinement conditions for months. Now more than ever, we need policy reform - will you please contact policy makers today? https://t.co/LPsMwSv0tg

[ty @tygrswrld]

did you know that if we cut the us military budget in half, we’d have enough money to completely eradicate homelessness in the US while still having well over 200 billion dollars left to improve quality of life for us, & WOULD STILL HAVE THE MOST EXPENSIVE MILITARY IN THE WORLD

[MaAgainstSolitary @StopMaSolitary]

COVID is being used as an excuse to expand solitary in MA. LGBTQI community members are imprisoned in solitary in disproportionately high numbers. MA doesn't have the death penalty but lockdown during a pandemic has created one. #StopSolitary #Mapoli @WCVB5 @EOPSS #FreeThemAll

[Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts @PLSMA]

Tomorrow at 3pm! @BlackAndPinkBos & @massequality are hosting a panel and we're looking forward to it - Transgender Experiences in the Criminal Legal System

Register here: https://t.co/PDLWwONoN0