AbolitionWorksTN

AbolitionWorksTN is a collective of organizers working together to create solutions and create community!

[AbolitionWorksTN @AbolitionWorks]

The Department of Justice has opened up an investigation into the operations of Trousdale Turner, the largest prison in Tennessee with the highest homicide rate of any prison in the country. Contact the DOJ & Bill Lee to let them know! #corecivickills
https://t.co/gb0DZgxASS

[AbolitionWorksTN @AbolitionWorks]

Glad to represent @Abolitionnation on this podcast. Check it out!

[The CCR is on bsky (@ccrjustice.org) @theCCR]

This Black August we bring to you an episode discussing the ongoing inside-outside organizing taking place to put an end to involuntary servitude in prisons or, more appropriately named, prison slavery.

For more info visit https://t.co/4MuCP0cDyF

[Abolitionist Law Center @AbolitionistLC]

Case in point: we just joined in putting Federal Bureau of Prisons on notice of legal consequences, under the National Environmental Policy Act, if it follows thru with constructing a $500 million federal prison on a former mountaintop removal mine site in Letcher County, KY.

[Corridos Callejeros @iamceciliap]

It’s been an honor to be able to support the couple hundred leaders at @tndriversunion alongside the whole team at @alutasigue and @tnstudentsol. No drivers, No Nashville! No drivers, No Tennessee!

[Jag Davies @jagdavies]

The US isn't just home to the world's most incarcerated people. It’s also home to the world's most *formerly* incarcerated people—who are 10 times more likely to be homeless.

We can't end the housing crisis until we repair the harms of mass incarceration. https://t.co/Sb3xgX4XgN

[AbolitionWorksTN @AbolitionWorks]

A CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Black August: Books! Community! Discussion! Films! We will also be writing letters of support to incarcerated organizers.

This Saturday, August 31st 10 - 4:30 at 2714 Old Lebanon Road

See you there!

[Secrets from a Prison Cell @cellsecrets]

Tennessee and CoreCivic use a web of contracts with local counties to operate in the state, which by law is only allowed one private prison. https://t.co/frVgAjoqEF

[AbolitionWorksTN @AbolitionWorks]

Happy July 32nd! #OversightNow #July32nd

[AbolitionWorksTN @AbolitionWorks]

We put out the call to community last week when we first heard of this & everyone came through! CoreCivic intentionally manages its facilities this way because their priority is profits. We will remain vigilant. #CoreCivicKills

[Secrets from a Prison Cell @cellsecrets]

Check out this latest article about the recent events at South Central by Kastalia Medrano @Filtermag_org
https://t.co/8tOITvdA72

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Police violence is a systemic problem in the US – and it happens on a scale far greater than other wealthy nations.

Is this how police in the land of the free should treat citizens?

[Melissa @iamtheriffraff]

The program does not operate past 1am and is not employed if the person has anything deemed a weapon which tells me the purpose of this program is not to protect vulnerable people.

Perhaps the purpose is more to deflect from calls to redefine policing outside of cops alone.

[AbolitionWorksTN @AbolitionWorks]

It is profoundly disturbing to me that we are not having a real conversation about how to respond to these kinds of calls. It's like we're ok with killing people because they aren't presenting in the "right" way. We can do better than this.

[Melissa @iamtheriffraff]

Just like we did when we wrote, petitioned, and voted for independent community oversight...

[Worth Rises @WorthRises]

It should go without saying that incarcerated people shouldn’t be forced to labor, especially under unsafe conditions. Notably, those forced to labor at Angola are paid just pennies, if anything at all.

This is why we fight to #EndTheException.

[AbolitionWorksTN @AbolitionWorks]

Any policy which meets the needs of people increases the safety, stability & health of our city & is public safety.

[Sekou Franklin @SekouFranklin]

Opinion: Tying public safety to transit reform makes everyone feel safer and builds greater trust in our city officials. https://t.co/kw9H6iMcQF

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

In the same week that the Supreme Court ruled unhoused people can be arrested & punished for sleeping outside, they ruled that the President of the United States can assassinate a political rival without arrest or punishment. This Court is obsessed with power & violence.

[Tennessee Lookout || tnlookout.bsky.social @TNLookout]

From @anitawadhwani: 190 children's deaths last year are being investigated for suspected abuse and neglect by the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services - a nearly 30% increase over the prior year and the largest number in nearly a decade.

https://t.co/Tj29cExCcg

[Abolitionist Law Center @AbolitionistLC]

"Community-based changes, like free electrical and plumbing repairs for low-income homeowners, have been credited with decreasing crime rates. Higher poverty levels and economic stress are correlated with higher rates of firearm homicides and suicides," according to the CDC.

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

These community activists are right – building bigger prisons & jails will not stop the harm of mass incarceration.

If lawmakers want to protect people from abuse behind bars, here's a simple place to start: decarcerate.

https://t.co/n5N8W7f4HS

[Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani]

If Tennessee was its own country, it would have the 9th highest incarceration rate in the world https://t.co/d4T4A3Y5sv via @TNLookout @friedmanadam5