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Our goal is to end solitary confinement in all U.S. prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities within 10 years. #SolitaryIsTorture

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🚌 Not every bus ride is about transportation. For many, it's about transformation.

From the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks to the Freedom Riders to the Climate Action Caravans, busses have played a central role in making change in America. A bus can move people, but it's the people who make a movement, who travel the rocky road toward progress.

🚍 It can all begin with a bus. And for us, it's the Journey to Justice Bus Tour.

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🔥 We’re taking the fight to end solitary confinement on the road. 🚍 This fall, 17 cities will feel the power of the #JourneyToJustice Tour.

📅 Sept 4–Oct 31, 2025 — see if we’re coming to your city: https://t.co/fHTwIS3yI6

#EndSolitary #AbolitionInAction

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#EndingIsolation #TransformationNotTorture (3/3)

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The reviews are in! 📖⭐

Dr. Terry Kupers sits down with Tyler Hicks of @guardian to talk about the forthcoming "Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement," co-authored with @ChrisWBlackwell, @kwanetaharris, and @DebbieZalesne. (1/3)

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Coming September 4 from @PlutoPress. Preorder your copy 🛒 and read the full review at the links in our bio! (2/3)

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#InternationalDayOfTheWorldsIndigenousPeoples #RebangDewan #KalpanaChakma #IndianCountry #AlcatrazOccupation #AlligatorAlcatraz #SolitaryConfinement #TransformationNotTorture (5/5)

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🧵 This International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we're reflecting on the rich global tradition of Indigenous resistance to carceral colonialism — and how all within the abolitionist movement can learn from and support their work today. (1/5)

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Take a look through this information on the Day itself, crucial moments in U.S. history, and an opportunity to support Indigenous leaders in protecting tribal lands today. (4/5)

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Take action! Go to https://t.co/X8KrKomgB3 to tell your representative to co-sponsor the End Solitary Confinement Act.

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BREAKING: The End Solitary Confinement Act is back in Congress.

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This bill, led by @EdMarkey and @RepKamlagerDove, would ban the practice beyond 4 hours and require 14+ hours of out-of-cell time. It's time to stop the abuse.

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🎻 Tune into the UN Chamber Music Society's special concert in celebration of Nelson Mandela International Day at the link in our bio!

#NelsonMandelaInternationalDay #NelsonMandela #MandelaRules #solitaryconfinement #TransformationNotTorture

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✊🏾 Today would be revolutionary anti-apartheid activist Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's 107th birthday. Since his survival of 27 years' imprisonment and transformational leadership in South African politics, Mandela has been revered around the world as exemplifying the struggle for human rights. (🧵)

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In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and named them “The Mandela Rules” in his honor. Rules 43-45 prohibit solitary beyond 15 days, and require that solitary be used “only in exceptional cases as a last resort, for as short a time as possible.”

[#HALTsolitary — Go to bit.ly/EndSolitaryNY @NYCAIC]

We were grateful to present via video at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva about human rights atrocities in prisons, jails & detention in NY & across the US. After the killings of Robert Brooks & Messiah Nantwi, NY must create pathways for release, HALT Solitary & end abuse.

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Swipe through for an overview of the context, response, and results of the strike, and be sure to check out the 6-time Best Documentary winner @TheStrikeFilm from filmmakers @JoeBillMunoz and @lucasguilkey. Watch it on @IndependentLens @PBS or request a screening event at the link in our bio.

#PelicanBay #HungerStrike #ShortCorridorCollective #SolitaryConfinement #TransformationNotTorture

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🧵On July 8, 2013, four men in solitary at Pelican Bay kicked off a massive hunger strike to protest indefinite solitary confinement and other horrific conditions.

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These four survivors — together a group known as The Short Corridor Collective — led 29,000 people locked up across 22 California prisons and 4 out-of-state prisons on a historic 2-month strike.