Faith Behind Bars

[#SurvivedAndPunished @survivepunish]

Incarcerated women are *30x* more likely to be raped than free women. Even the DoJ says risk of sexual harm is so high in prison that it's a violation of the 8th. Anti-rape mvmt urgently needs solidarity w/ criminalized survivors & to demand #FreeThemAll.

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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

Matilda McCrear was kidnapped from West Africa at age 2 - more than 50 years after Congress outlawed the Transatlantic Slave Trade - and enslaved in Alabama. She died in Selma in January 1940 at age 83 - the last survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. https://t.co/baXOjZxjmt

[David Garlock @DavidLeegarlock]

Tomorrow is my Freedomversary!!!! I walked out of prison on April 1, 2013. I don’t know how much I will be on here tomorrow as I will be having Lithotripsy to get rid of my kidney stone. Prayers are appreciated.

[Faith Behind Bars @FBBandB]

Weekly Update - March 19, 2020 https://t.co/zP5662Ob5g

[Faith Behind Bars @FBBandB]

#COVIDー19 is likely a death sentence for the #incarcerated.

[Katal Center for Equity, Health, & Justice @katalcenter]

Coronavirus is now in prisons & jails across NYS, putting thousands of incarcerated people at risk.

To stop #COVID19, @NYGovCuomo & local leaders like @NYCMayor must release people from prison & jail NOW.

RELEASE ELDERS, MEDICALLY FRAGILE & THOSE IN ON TECHNICAL VIOLATIONS!

[jennylilac @jennylilac]

Hello from the Ed dept! We always need die cuts and other art activity prep. We need things like goodie bags stuffed or broken down. If your laminator is small enough to take home we always need a million cards laminated and cut out. We need 1,000 pencils sharpened. We got you.

[Kathy Morse 🌻🐸☮️ @KathyMorse0914]

Look at the starkness of the room, the metal tables and seats bolted to the floor all aligned in a perfect row, perfectly spaced from one another with military precision. A single vending machine, it looks like thousands of prison and jail visiting rooms across the US.

[Faith Behind Bars @FBBandB]

JennyLilac works for the Springfield Museums in Springfield, MA.

[jennylilac @jennylilac]

#Museum30 - Day 7, Last - This is my last view of my favorite place before I leave each evening. I moved homes twice in the last year and felt so unsettled. But, having this place as constant kept me feeling grounded and stable.

[SecondChanceJobs @SecondChanceJob]

Feds should follow states' lead on expungement reform https://t.co/OYF7sKRBym

[Jimmy Jenkins @JimmyJenkins]

Attorneys representing the men and women incarcerated in Arizona prisons say the state is not living up to a years-old settlement regarding prison health care conditions, and the matter should be resolved with a trial
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[NYC Books Through Bars @BtBsNYC]

We get a lot of requests from people in prison and we sometimes do not have the books on hand. Some of these letters are put aside so we can find them. We rely on the community to help us locate these 'special requests'.

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day."

[Pioneer Human Services @PioneerWA]

"It provides #space for us to re-acclimate to the world." "The #resume and #interview training was priceless." "Staff even helped me navigate #healthcare options." "Here, I don't feel like I have to hide." - Graduates of Pioneer's #JobReadinessProgram, #RoadmapToSuccess

[Elizabeth Yeld @lizyeld]

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"If can happen ….then none of us can feel safe"
Once innocents start being put in prison for crimes never committed; indeed which can barely even be conceived of, something is going terribly wrong.

[Julie Healy. @juliehealy67]

Morning fellow tweeters, have a good day. Keep on speaking out against injustice. The tide is turning, the public are aware of how corrupt the justice system is. Those within the justice system are blaming each other for the mess. #karma

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

If it's what you say, we love it, especially later in the summer

[New Hour @NewHourNY]

Help us continue to give to women who often return home with little to nothing. Donate a backpack filled with items for women in reentry! #womenbehindbarsmatter, #projectdignity

[New Hour @NewHourNY]

To date we have given dignity and hope, in the form of a backpack of essentials, to over 60 women returning home from jail just this year alone.Carol just received one of these backpacks and said it was “The most amazing gift someone who has nothing could get. It saved my life.”

[jennylilac @jennylilac]

I used to think that if a spouse beat me up and got arrested for domestic abuse that I'd have the support of my community. TIL that first they'd wonder if I had deserved it.

[David Garlock @DavidLeegarlock]

@yungwonk No. An amazing Ted Talk that has the record for longest standing ovation. A documentary on HBO "True Justice". He was in 13th @ava . Just Mercy also will be released in theaters nationally on Jan 10th. You can go to @eji_org and see all of the orgs work.