WE are left out of budget decisions. We want transparency and real investments with our tax dollars. Family support and safe neighborhoods. Join the KCCJ to tell Bakersfield City Council and Mayor: Our Tax Dollars, Our Community, Our Future #BakersfieldVoices#CommunityOverCops
Ever wonder who PROFITS when someone goes to jail?
It’s not just the prison.
💰 Bail bond companies
📞 Prison phone vendors
🧼 Commissary suppliers
👮 Police departments
🏛️ Court systems
🧪 Drug test firms
👷 Cheap prison labor for corporations
Mass incarceration is a BUSINESS.
Prisons cannot hold up against sweltering heat – most of these facilities lack AC & are basically concrete coffins that will only become more inhospitable for people who are locked up.
📢 Have you ever wondered how much it costs to house just ONE person in prison or jail in California?
The answer Over $132,000 a year
That’s YOUR tax dollars and that’s more than what it costs to send someone to college
Prisons are everywhere The economic impact falls on YOU
AB 2761, McCarty. Deaths while in law enforcement custody. Whether it's state prison or local jail, every life matters. It ensures no death in custody goes unreported. No more vague reports. AB 2761 requires full transparency: Who, Where, How, and Why.
AB 2761, McCarty. Deaths while in law enforcement custody. Whether it's state prison or local jail, every life matters. ITensures no death in custody goes unreported. No more vague reports. AB 2761 requires full transparency: Who, Where, How, and Why.
Join us at the California City’s City Council meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 5pm to tell city representatives we don’t want a BILLION-dollar corporation that profits over human suffering to open an immigration detention center in Cal City!
🗓️TOMORROW
Communities across the US are proposing spending millions (sometimes billions) on new jails – but new, bigger jails don't make anyone safer.
This webinar will discuss how you can push back against jail expansion.
Register here 👇
https://t.co/IOwrqjwrM6
📢 SB 519 (Atkins)
This California law is a huge step forward for transparency and accountability in local jails and detention centers.
✨ Key changes under SB 519:
A State Director of In-Custody Death Review will now oversee investigations into deaths behind bars.
Hundreds die in CA jails yearly—many pretrial or serving short terms. AB 2521 requires agencies to report these deaths, but we need more than data—we need justice.
🗣 Incarcerated people have rights
📞 Call your reps
📲 Share their stories
#AB2521#JusticeForAll#EndTheSilence
This week:
✅ People’s Action is in D.C. telling Congress: Don’t gut health care & housing to fund billionaire tax breaks
✅ Volunteers are phone banking to stop Medicaid & climate cuts
✅ YOU can take action from anywhere → https://t.co/o4cuJW9bwe
#StopTheCuts
The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on earth — worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations.
https://t.co/eueX0I8snY