The big players in private prisons are not going away under Biden’s presidency. They have been steadily diversifying, shifting away from prisons toward other government contracts, like immigration detention. https://t.co/nCXBMmzTX8
It's time we look closely at things from which we might tend to avert our gaze. High-security prisons in the U.S. involve caging & dehumanizing protocols. In our looking we need to see that investments in rehabilitation, hope and restoration make for safer communities.
These are the Biden cages. (Faces blurred.) Thousands of kids, in the midst of a pandemic, crammed in at 1500% capacity.
This is just one of the “pods” at Donna. There are SEVEN more, equally full.
1533 people in Alabama have a sentence of life without parole. 976 people are convicted of capital murder. Of this 976, 168 have the death penalty. That leaves 808 w/ LWOP for capital murder. The remaining 745 were sentenced to life without parole under the habitual offender law.