C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels

Advocating for a restorative
process through which ex-offenders can work past disclosure & registry requirements & regain civil rights. #hope

[Renakj.bsky.social @ReenNahMean]

sometimes i forget that our hyperincarceration crisis happened so recently (less than fifty years ago) and so quickly (prison population grew 700% in 40 years).

it makes me sick and it makes me hopeful. this country made this in less than one lifetime, we can unmake it in ours.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Executions should be televised so that the public can see what it really means to take a defenseless, alive person into a room and kill them in the most premediated way. I had more to say about this idea 15 years ago: https://t.co/BcxlHW3pBY

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

@Brynstar7 I’m so sorry. Comfort and peace to you and your family in this difficult time.

[EndTheRegistry @endtheregistry]

1/Criminal justice advocates: before you add “except for sex offenders” into your projects, I urge you to listen to your own arguments for reform and realize they apply to people who have been convicted of sex offenses too. Your exclusions are there either because

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Quin Jones should not have been executed. It was an unnecessary and unwanted execution, a failure of moral leadership. What’s even more disturbing is the fact that the execution took place without any independent media witnesses present due to an “error” by TDCJ.

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

@joannblin Comfort and peace to you as you regroup and consider the next step. There will be light at the end of the tunnel.

[EndTheRegistry @endtheregistry]

To all the Moms with incarcerated children or spouses, to all the incarcerated Moms with children, and all the formerly incarcerated struggling to be reunited with their children, I wish you the hope and strength for better days.

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

And some of the wisest people are those who made a mistake; learned better; and seek to do better. They deserve support and encouragement, especially as so many lacked that in childhood. #cjreform

[The Secret Prisoner @SecretPrisoner]

Let’s break the prisoner stereotype, some of the people I’ve met in Prison are the nicest people I’ve rubbed shoulders with, thoughtful, caring, lust for life; just because they’re serving a sentence doesn’t make them bad people. They made a mistake, that’s all. #prison #prisoner

[National Assoc. for Rational Sexual Offense Laws @NationalRSOL]

This can't be repeated enough, from Dr. Ira Ellman's brilliant new paper about what he calls "The Registry Regime." "An astonishingly broad array of burdens are imposed today on anyone ever convicted of almost any sexual offense of any kind or seriousness, . . .

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

This thread offered a look at what happens when big decisions are made on the basis of conventional wisdom, and the “wisdom “ is dead wrong. This injustice needs to be righted.#cjreform

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

Last year, Texas prisons banned greeting cards to try to cut down on contraband. A year later, there’s so many drugs - sources say mostly from staff - & such bad food that some men are trading drugs for sandwiches. My latest, w/
@jsmccullou https://t.co/mgnd0kv0pg

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

Imagine having a conscience so deformed that you can boast about doing evil. It happens every day in the justice system, and not on the side you expect it. Perhaps actual justice will catch up with them one day.

[TechTraderView @TechTraderView]

We all know they *do* this... that's not the surprising thing. The surprising thing is, some of them are actually proud of and boast of doing this, and see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
https://t.co/A1d39o3LeP

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

@GValimont We are so deeply sorry. May you be surrounded by love and peace in this journey of grief.

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

Real mail from loved ones is a lifeline for many people. It must not be eliminated. We must protest.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD: A few weeks ago, I warned that Biden was continuing Trump's plan to eliminate in-person mail for people in prisons. Now, the situation is getting worse. Read about it and then join this campaign to stop it: (1) https://t.co/DuS5sVjHvT

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

This is an important decision. We’d like to see it replicated in every state. #cjreform #mercytriumphs

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

🚨🚨🚨JUST IN: MASSIVE VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA! CA Supreme Court just ruled unanimously that "the state cannot keep people behind bars simply because they cannot afford to post bail pending their trial." Cash bail as we know it over in California. Speechless.https://t.co/vnrN9E8IOt

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

the california supreme court has just struck down the state's money bail system as violating fundamental civil rights. our client kenneth humphrey has won his case, and hundreds of thousands of people will benefit. more to come later as we read the decision more fully.

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

@cherylofkamiah Comfort and peace to you in this deep loss.

[C.E.L.L.—Coalition to End Lifetime Labels @cellintl]

@mickigreeneyes Comfort, peace, and hope to you as you work through this deep loss. 🙏🏼

[Karine Omry @KarineOmry]

#RamiroGonzales was sentenced to death based on the junk science claim of #FutureDangerousness. Mr. Gonzales is not the same man he was at the age of 18. He is no threat behind bars. Pls send an email to the BPP: [email protected] ask them to recommend clemency.

[TechTraderView @TechTraderView]

A 17-year old girl was having an epileptic seizure at a concert and being subdued by cops & onlookers when a new cop comes up, demands she stop seizing, & then TAZES HER. Mom comes running up to explain that her child is epileptic, & SHE gets tased too.
https://t.co/VbG4M5CdAd