Krish Gundu

Co-founder & ED @txjailproject; co-founder @tejasbarrios; co-conspirator @unreasonabledw; math coach; physics & film geek. Tweets mine. शिव सेना-RSS will be🚧🚫

[Jaison Oliver @oJaison]

I encourage everyone to complete this survey. I'd also encourage you to remember that no department aside from HPD and Fire takes up more than 3% of the budget.

So if you want more money for drainage, health, libraries, etc. let the city know!

[Inquest @_inquest_]

"Through widespread cooperation with ICE, jails became the primary source where ICE found people to deport." Tl;dr: police are never going to help stop ICE. A collab with @NYUpress https://t.co/xKX6ZpgnTe

[Texas Jail Project @TxJailProject]

TODAY IN Washington D.C. Texas Jail Project testified to Congress in first hearing about harmful local impacts of 287(g)

Watch the full hearing on Rep. Ramirez’s pages:
📷 X: https://t.co/3g5GSkXlrX

📷 Facebook: https://t.co/PKe6o8jCM8

[Krish Gundu @kinsngops]

Tune in now!

[Texas Jail Project @TxJailProject]

Tune in this morning at 8:30 ET to hear invited testimony from our very own @Dalilareyn82 at a Shadow Hearing organized by @repdeliaramirez on the harms of 287(g)
Livestream here: https://t.co/3g5GSkXlrX &
https://t.co/PKe6o8jCM8

Our press advisory here:
https://t.co/LKKOJrHljV

[Texas Jail Project @TxJailProject]

Tune in this morning at 8:30 ET to hear invited testimony from our very own @Dalilareyn82 at a Shadow Hearing organized by @repdeliaramirez on the harms of 287(g)
Livestream here: https://t.co/3g5GSkXlrX &
https://t.co/PKe6o8jCM8

Our press advisory here:
https://t.co/LKKOJrHljV

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

A Texas petro crescent native details a lifetime of living in one of the nation’s most polluted zones, and indicts the predatory personal injury law firms that exploit communities recovering the region’s mundane petrochemical site explosions https://t.co/3yX57OZjMI

[Jaison Oliver @oJaison]

As always, I will point out that police have a great advantage when it comes to marketing and PR.

People feel unsafe? We need more police!

People feel safe? What we're doing is working! We need more police!

[Jaison Oliver @oJaison]

It's interesting to see how police narratives shift in response to criticisms. On one hand, they're understaffed and don't have time to deal with "a transient complaining about a burger."

On the other, this type of "full service" or "community policing" is vital.

Which is it?

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: https://t.co/BEpc4DUhzT

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

A Florida law says companies convicted of a felony should be barred from holding public contracts, but the state has not acted to bar Armor companies providing jail health care despite a conviction and officials won’t say why. https://t.co/3g1XKzgGcV @NicholeManna @TheFloridaTrib

[Gus Bova 🗒️ @gusbova]

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: https://t.co/GM0mwMskwg

[Krish Gundu @kinsngops]

@evan7257 Waller county jail is where Sandra Bland died. And Liberty is not. Sorry if that's too dark! I can't help but remember all the counties by the people who died there in custody. No one wants to go on a road trip with me anymore. I wonder why.

[Bolts @boltsmag]

The city of Verona, Wisconsin, ended its contract with surveillance company Flock Safety last fall, but the company waited months to remove its cameras. “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” says the mayor.

https://t.co/eWJ0078s4C

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. I have to say that I am very disappointed with John Oliver. I finally watched his segment on police body cameras, and it was abysmal. Missed the whole point, and in the process bought into some of the worst copaganda about them.

[Inquest @_inquest_]

"Georgia spends $217,517 annually to incarcerate a child in its system.... The annual cost of a pupil in Georgia public schools is $15,833." An investigation with Prism and @mainlinezine into Georgia's dangerous, expensive youth incarceration https://t.co/JUMN3ChxLS

[Bolts @boltsmag]

Since 2019, several New York City police officers have shot or tased someone while responding to a 911 mental health call, despite having undergone crisis intervention training:

https://t.co/WLqVWpzXBZ

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

The Namantar Aandolan brought about a metamorphosis in Dalit literature, which rejected liberalism as orthodox piety, employed strong yet raw language, and served as the agency of historical documentation.

https://t.co/5B2lUmxnx0

Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule writes

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Three hundred million workers staged the largest strike action in human history. They shut down India, a G20 economy. Most of you are hearing about it for the first time now.

That’s not poor journalism.

That’s deliberate erasure of working-class power in real time. My latest👇🏾

[Holly Hansen @hollyshansen]

In: @TxJailProject statement on $1.5 million settlement in federal lawsuit against Smith County:

[Krish Gundu @kinsngops]

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[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.