"[Governors] face a choice: save lives in prisons now, or hand down potential death sentences with their inaction and watch harm ripple through communities and exacerbate inequities into future generations."
My op-ed with @miriamkrinsky in @theappeal:https://theappeal.org/prisons-are-overwhelmed-with-covid-19-why-arent-governors-doing-more/ …
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Replying to @chesaboudin @shaunking and
I thought prisons were federal meaning governmers don’t get much say on what happens and how they use state money to help? Someone educate me pls I’m so confused
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Replying to @TiarraMae_ @chesaboudin and
Federal prisons are actually a fairly small portion of the mass incarceration pie, our local and state mass incarceration systems are much more prevalent. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html …pic.twitter.com/c34td3cc4N
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Replying to @netfire4 @TiarraMae_ and
Let the murders and rapist sit in prison . They already let out people with non violent offenses in all states you fools !
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Replying to @BezotskyDaniel @TiarraMae_ and
I would love it if we had released the non-violent criminals, we absolutely have not however. We absolutely need to for our own survival, in addition some of the violent crimes were minor and decades ago . Mass incarceration here has a long way to being just, or a safe path.
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Replying to @netfire4 @BezotskyDaniel and
What's a violent crime that is minor? And if it happened decades ago, does that make it less violent due to the passage of time?
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Replying to @MikeinCA94123 @BezotskyDaniel and
Makes them more dangerous inside in congregate settings than outside our jails. The jails in this moment of pandemic, are a threat not security for us.
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Replying to @netfire4 @BezotskyDaniel and
Doesn't answer my point but creates another question...how are violent criminals more dangerous inside, in a supervised and secure area, than in public where they can move freely to re-offend.
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Replying to @MikeinCA94123 @BezotskyDaniel and
Because congregate settings are breeding grounds for this virus, and jails are epidemiologically insolated from the rest of the population. They are the recognized epicenters of this crisis.
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Again...how does their being in a congregant setting during this virus, make violent felons more dangerous?
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