This is racialized ableism at play:
As of 2012, about 30-50% of those in jails and prisons have a disability and I’ll give you a guess about the rates of disabilities by race and class nationwide. americanprogress.org/article/disabl
These are incarcerated peoples who will be less likely to
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Partake In this grotesque-to-begin-with plan.
This is why I say disability is a critical axis more “I think I’m Nondisabled” people need to pay attention to.
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hopefully this bill doesn't go through. it probably won't. it's just such a risky idea tbh 😭
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The good news is that 7000 bills were filed last week in MA because we have a bizarre and deeply undemocratic process that basically mandates all bills to be passed during the next two years be filed by last week. Which always leads to a total free for all of bad ideas.
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There was an affluent white male wheelchair-using Missouri state representative who had a similar bill 25yrs ago, but it was specifically for death row inmates to trade organs for life in prison.
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Disabled people in prison getting terrible medical treatment, what could go wrong?
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