When mail is digitized, it becomes sterile – no longer a precious handwritten card that smells like my gramma’s perfume.
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In Prison, Holding Handwritten Cards Is a Rare Joy. Illinois Is Taking It Away. Read Post »
The state’s response includes sweeping new powers, intensified surveillance, and a crackdown on organizing.
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Bondi Beach Attack Is Weaponized to Suppress Palestine Solidarity in Australia Read Post »
One bill proposes a national felony ban on trans youth health care, another aims to bar Medicaid from covering care.
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Rep. Sarah McBride Condemns Republicans’ Upcoming Anti-Trans Votes Read Post »
Laws to help “criminalized survivors” who fight back against their abusers often merely reduce their prison time.
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New Pennsylvania Law Seeks to Aid Abuse Survivors Who Resist — But Is It Enough? Read Post »
No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.
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When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence” Read Post »
At least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year at Texas’s notorious Harris County Jail.
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New Film Exposes Deadly Houston Jail and “Unconstitutional” System of Cash Bail Read Post »
The end of a pandemic-era federal housing subsidy leaves tens of thousands across the US unsure where they’ll live next.
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Vulnerable Renters Are Fearful as Emergency Housing Vouchers Wind Down Read Post »
Now, as Raunaq Alam’s team attempts to appeal the judge’s decision, he reportedly continues to be targeted.
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Texas Judge Overrules Jury to Send Anti-Genocide Activist to Jail for Graffiti Read Post »
“There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.
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The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism Read Post »
For years, mad and disabled people have been asking Americans to fight the criminalization of disability. Will they?
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Trump’s Executive Order Criminalizing Houselessness Reveals a Familiar Dystopia Read Post »
We live in a country that has used machines to turn a dying person into a fetus incubator against the family’s wishes.
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3 Years in, Horrors Wrought by Anti-Abortion “Dobbs” Ruling Are Apparent to All Read Post »
Right now in the US, more than a million mothers are pouring energy and money into trying to care for incarcerated sons.
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Mothers of Imprisoned Sons Struggle Emotionally and Financially With No Support Read Post »
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