Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity

Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS) fights for prison + police abolition / new+backup account for @MI_Abolition

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

hi! it's us! we have a backup twitter account though if both accounts disappear, our goal of total abolition does not!

[(inactive) MI Prison Abolition @MI_Abolition]

we may be moving to a different account soon-ish — keep an eye out for that post / direction on where to follow MAPS’ projects

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

Muskegon and WHV, part of the same system: "In 2019, the MDOC took the extraordinary step of treating all 2,000 inmates at WHV CF for scabies after an outbreak there went undiagnosed for more than a year. A federal lawsuit over the MDOC's handling of that outbreak continues."

[Detroit Free Press @freep]

Scabies outbreak at Muskegon prison prompts inmate quarantine https://t.co/mcraygt1lU

[violeta ognianova ikonomova @violetikon]

Duggan said Detroit’s latest demo dirt mess would cost less than $8M to clean up and that his admin had a "100%" success rate getting contractors to pick up such tabs. Neither claim held up. My latest, on the mess now poised to cost city taxpayers $27M:
https://t.co/AIZVY0zHNl

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

"…that certain molds were dangerous enough to implicate the 8th Amendment it is not clearly established that prison officials need to take any particular action to remediate the presence of mold." https://t.co/Xa84nGPmUG

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

AG Nessel: "There are no cases establishing a prisoner’s right to be free from these molds…it is not clearly established that any type of mold at WHV is sufficiently dangerous to incarcerated people, and even if it were clearly established…"

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

"We have watched these tensions [between MDOC and the guard union] with interest, eyebrows raised and popcorn in hand, because cracks in this carceral coalition have the potential to create opportunities for abolitionists." https://t.co/v1KflQJdGA

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

Super interesting to see how the MDOC administration is trying to split the CO union by proposing significant salary increases for new staff at U.P. prisons with staff shortages https://t.co/qgCHwqQGMt

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

Super interesting to see how the MDOC administration is trying to split the CO union by proposing significant salary increases for new staff at U.P. prisons with staff shortages https://t.co/qgCHwqQGMt

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Read this https://t.co/NGnaWgfU16

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

MDOC creates the conditions for outbreaks like this by failing to provide effective laundry/cleaning, then punishing prisoners who report medical conditions like scabies by sending them to seg/solidarity, instead of providing treatment. The result? Major oubreaks, mass suffering.

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

4 of 6 housing units are on lockdown/quarantine at Muskegon CF as a result of the scabies outbreak https://t.co/hxfJ3CGJrp

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

WHV has gotten lots of attention in recent weeks because of how its toxic conditions are killing people imprisoned there. But all of Michigan's prisons have similar problems, e.g. Muskegon C.F. currently has a major scabies outbreak, caused by neglect and repression @MCmuckraker

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

For more on MDOC's staffing problems and to understand why they are doing this, see our analysis in "From Crisis to Collapse?" https://t.co/v1KflQJLw8

[@MI-CEMI @mi_cemi]

So the up north facilities that most separate people from their families are also the hardest to staff, and now most expensive to hire for. What part of this is a good idea? https://t.co/8CkMC5NATC

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

"We're not their slaves." Women imprisoned in MDOC's toxic mold-infested Women's Huron Valley prison, where two prisoners have died in the last two weeks, are forced to work overnight "intensely cleaning" the prison before high-level inspections https://t.co/q7bwtFmQBm

[Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker]

She reported a sexual assault at North Lake. ICE deported her before the investigation was over. https://t.co/G52figymGk

[Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker]

Women are suffering and dying at Michigan’s only women’s prison, and activists say lawmakers are moving too slowly https://t.co/B7NP97sAFL

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

WHV has gotten lots of attention in recent weeks because of how its toxic conditions are killing people imprisoned there. But all of Michigan's prisons have similar problems, e.g. Muskegon C.F. currently has a major scabies outbreak, caused by neglect and repression @MCmuckraker

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

with WHV in the news recently, it's worthwhile to think about how this prison has also been used to rehash/launder some pretty despicable transphobia as well.

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

In the years MAPS has followed Paul Egan's reporting on the MDOC, we've never seen an article as irresponsible and misguided as this one. This is a bummer, bc his work is usually good... Let's break it down.

THREAD 🧵 (1/n):
article here: https://t.co/Vk4hfYr11a

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

oh woah a post of ours from Twenty Nineteen

[(inactive) MI Prison Abolition @MI_Abolition]

Women's Huron Valley Correctional Center is off of lockdown...

But this is only a small reprieve.

WHV still has mold, still has nasty water, and still the MDOC spokesperson is blaming the people being held there for the conditions of the facility.

https://t.co/RAThZq6Z1l

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

to read:

[ADayToRemember @ADayIn1920]

that piece by former George Floyd Uprising political prisoner, Jose Felan has been turned into a zine!

https://t.co/bd0gTBWpEE

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

struggle against prison is a struggle for life

[Release Aging People in Prison Campaign @RAPPcampaign]

More than 200 people have died in NY prisons since a mob of white prison guards viciously beat and stomped Robert Brooks to death. Gov. Hochul and the Legislature have accomplished nothing to free people from these death traps.

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

if you think the state-sanctioned murder of becky fackler is disconnected from the hunger strike at delaney hall in new jersey, think again

#AbolishPrisons #FreeThemAll

[Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker]

Rebecca Fackler begged for help for hours before death at Michigan’s only women’s prison, inmate says https://t.co/Ap4r7DT8q1

[Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity @Mich_Abolition]

amazing employees that abuse prisoners, let them die of medical neglect, and force them to call mold "mildew" got it got it cool cool cool

[MichiganDOC-CFA @MDOCCFA]

A shout out to staff from Warden Jeremy Howard and all of WHV administrative staff!
Warden Howard stated, "Staff at WHV have been amazing though the COVID-19 pandemic and this is my way of saying Thank-you".
We agree Sir. Thank you WHV all MDOC staff for the amazing work you do!