The bipartisan EQUAL Act could bring 8,000 people home from prison sooner by eliminating the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine crimes. Thank you to the leaders of both parties who are standing up for what's right. #EQUALAct#criminaljusticereform
Longer prison sentences will not cut crime. Moving forward, we must recognise that people change, and that a rational justice system must include mechanisms allowing individual evaluations of long sentences and the potential for earlier release.
I'm going to start opening up! Understand I'm using this platform to speak out. Then I intend to share tools and strategies for how I've survived. And believe me, I've survived. So always retweet so my voice can be heard. This ain't just for me. This is for us ✊ #Fighter
Prison staff should be highly qualified experts but the government are desperately recruiting people with no expertise or experience. This ultimately leaves the public less safe as our prisons are failing to do their job of rehabilitating prisoners.
The Philly judge who jailed #MeekMill has had all her criminal cases reassigned.
This is a huge win for safety and justice.
We need judges focused on healing our community not furthering their own self interest.
If you are an artist who has interact with the criminal justice system or a family member of someone who has we are offering a space to share your talents. Get in touch. #prisonart#mentalhealthart#prison#abstractart#art
Today, @REFORM in partnership with
@MichaelRubin & the 76ers gave children who have been adversely affected by the criminal justice system a day to remember.
They had a chance to ask @DocRivers some questions. Stay tuned for more!
@johnneilbrown Mission: To join others and assist in campaigning for change regarding certain things in the criminal justice system that needs rectifying. Namely, the IPP and Joint Enterprise sentences. The more voices, the better.
Should a prison sentence or a mistake in life define you as a person forever? A crime at 18 isn’t probably the same person when they are 30 so why does every form have THE BOX? to extort more money? Should the noose stay round your neck forever? #Prison sentences are forever!
Usually, it's the neoliberal faux WOKE wealthy white philanthropists (that tried to cancel me) spewing my quote as if they came up w/it, but today it's @GoldmanSachs. Can a formerly incarcerated entrepreneur, philanthropist & advocate get credit for his intellectual property? WTF
What’s needed isn’t bigger prisons with more places in them, but fewer prisons with properly paid and trained staff, and good rehabilitation programmes. More prisons and more police officers with targets to hit means more arrests and more young men will be jailed.