‘This Is Not an Emergency’

My latest: Dauphin County collected $3.4 million in commissions from phone calls from the jail. Instead of spending the money on incarcerated people, it went to staff perks – like $300k for gun range memberships – and paying contractors.https://t.co/SPLtJkQdCe

— Joshua Vaughn (@JoshuaPVaughn) January 10, 2023

The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration based on population, partly due to an overwhelmed, underfunded system in both prosecutors' and public defenders' offices.

One initiative is trying to bring more resources to those incarcerated or facing trial https://t.co/dHS4KjD21i

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) December 14, 2022

THREAD: “Even as state/local reformers post major victories, national Democrats have almost entirely abandoned discussing criminal justice reform in public.”

Some thoughts on the irrational political cowardice of Dem leaders on justice & what you can do:https://t.co/O5z5n4fTyx

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) October 25, 2021

“I cannot eat because I have no teeth”: Michigan prisoners say long wait to see a dentist is inhumane.

Column by @keribla, published in partnership with @MarshallProj.https://t.co/lUz7NSSoJT

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 22, 2021

Before reform and abolition, we need to substantially rethink what we want and expect from criminal law and punishment, writes @jonathansimon59. https://t.co/tzA7phfIbu

— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) May 15, 2021

The 5 men in this photo each lost more than 20 years to the police, DA misconduct that wrongly convicted them

There are 100s more — mostly Black men, many still behind bars. Amid a racial reckoning, we aren't we talking about this more?

My new column https://t.co/LsWlXQ7OPN

— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) May 9, 2021

THREAD: A bill is now racing thru Louisiana's legislature pushed by this guy. A former prosecutor. To destroy public defender independence, install a "defense czar" beholden to the Governor, & keep public defenders dependent on conviction fees of the very people they represent. pic.twitter.com/4DbAUXd1xI

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) May 7, 2021

Black youth are particularly over-incarcerated in the juvenile justice system. While only 14% of all youth in the U.S. are Black, 42% of boys and 35% of girls in juvenile facilities are Black. https://t.co/NHvgLk9Egh

— Prison Policy Init. (@PrisonPolicy) July 31, 2020

In a small town in Louisiana, police have a long tradition of illegally detaining potential witnesses to crimes.

The Obama Justice Dept. attempted sweeping reform overseen by a judge.

The Trump administration had different ideas.

Our report from 2018:https://t.co/Fs3ntbYfFT

— ProPublica (@propublica) June 1, 2020

This is Archie Williams. I will never forget this audition for the rest of my life. And I’ll never listen to this song in the same way ever again. https://t.co/UCco7OwdGx

— Simon Cowell (@SimonCowell) May 22, 2020

BREAKING: Major opinion from the Second Circuit in Federal Defenders of New York v Bureau of Prisons

"The Defenders describe a course of events that demands the attention of all components of the system that our country relies on for meting out justice."https://t.co/hHuBHO3ZJB

— Joshua Matz (@JoshuaMatz8) March 20, 2020

Trump suggests he'd like to model American criminal law on drug dealing on authoritarian systems like China, where dealers are executed: "Countries with a powerful death penalty, with a fair but quick trial, they have very little if any drug problem. That includes China." pic.twitter.com/9WprysjJAX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2020

A Mississippi man being held at a county jail on a misdemeanor charge asked a guard to charge his cellphone. The phone was confiscated, and the man was slapped with a 12-year prison sentence for possessing a phone in a correctional facility. https://t.co/XPJWy0LEIP

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 18, 2020

A black man will spend 12 years in prison because, while he was in a county jail for a misdemeanor, guards caught him sending texts on his phone—a felony that can apparently carry between 3 to 15 years in prison. The MS Supreme Court upheld the sentence.https://t.co/X3IVaArtdA

— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) January 11, 2020

U.S. taxpayers spent over $4 billion incarcerating innocent people https://t.co/VPDzggG4qt by @KristinReports pic.twitter.com/tqo0gWFQze

— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) December 1, 2019

READ: This is happening right now in Montgomery County, PA.

A 13 y/o was charged $444 for stealing a bag of chips. Here, a criminal record isn’t the only way children are punished. Court fines & costs keep children & their families in debt & under state supervision. A thread. pic.twitter.com/TjWIoFdxUf

— Keisha Hudson 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 (@K_Nicole_Hudson) November 23, 2019

For decades I’ve been visiting my own parents in prison and fighting for criminal justice reform.

That’s why I’m running for district attorney, to make sure the system works for all of us, not just the rich & powerful.

Please watch our new video and join our movement. pic.twitter.com/gjLgW3vfn8

— Chesa Boudin (@chesaboudin) October 16, 2019