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Supporting public defenders and the people & communities they serve to amplify perspective + story to end mass criminalization. Dad. Always public defender.

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    1. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

      THREAD: Imagine your dearest loved one. Child. Spouse. Parent. Grandparent. Now imagine them locked in a concrete room the size of a parking space. Behind solid steel. 20-24 hr/day. No contact w/ other humans except screams thru a food slot. This is solitary. This is torture.pic.twitter.com/0MqvRnDSWn

      177 replies 1,288 retweets 3,535 likes
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      Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

      100 people caged in Michigan solitary confinement wrote letters to share their experiences. Allies in Michigan collected them. Artists interpreted them. Coders organized & filtered them. The result: This interactive digital archive of first-hand accounts.http://silenced.in 

      5:47 AM - 13 May 2021
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      8 replies 320 retweets 623 likes
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        2. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Shearod McFarland, who spent *over 9 years* in solitary: “I felt that the quiet, creeping violence of segregation was slowly tearing my soul apart. These abuses continue because no one can see what’s happening to us. Solitary is a kind of perpetual violence."pic.twitter.com/LVc0OcbP2I

          3 replies 102 retweets 367 likes
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        3. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Facts: There are over 3000 people in some form of solitary in Michigan. No limit on length. 47% in long term solitary have been in over 2 years. Longest serving have been in over 40 years. Black men are 7% of MI population. 65-80% of solitary. Artwork: 18, by Duane Montney.pic.twitter.com/hYAX1fiopP

          5 replies 195 retweets 407 likes
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        4. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Brian Peterson: "I hate it in there. I feel the walls closing in around me even as I write this about it. It is a horrible feeling to be so helpless. If it wasn’t for my faith in Jesus Christ I know I would have died. I can’t write about that but one night I know it was close.pic.twitter.com/A1thgj4IvH

          4 replies 54 retweets 245 likes
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        5. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Solitary confinement is a form of capital punishment. People come out (if they come out) forever damaged, fundamentally altered. Their former selves disappeared. Solitary confinement is death. It must be abolished. Artwork: Quiet Thinker by Darius White.pic.twitter.com/QwSN9z5kXZ

          4 replies 117 retweets 398 likes
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        6. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Rutikanga Akesi: “I know it’s too late now, but I want those people to know we’re humans too & we deserve to be treated as such. To subject us to extreme social isolation & sensory deprivation -- it’s endless torture, psychological & physical."pic.twitter.com/f2bhFg5I5f

          2 replies 75 retweets 279 likes
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        7. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          How to get solitary: Disobeying an order Yelling Cursing Arguing Fighting Too many alcohol swabs, toilet paper, toiletries Too much medication or food Asking to speak to a superior officer Standing up for vulnerable person Refusing meals Filing grievances Requesting protectionpic.twitter.com/b3kkDnqkSQ

          10 replies 140 retweets 361 likes
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        8. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          People in Michigan solitary are often held in remote, rural prisons in the Upper Peninsula where the staff is nearly 100% white. Racially charged abuses, both physical & verbal. Andraus McCloud: "The further you go up north, it's like the South. You see more crosses burning."pic.twitter.com/DU7viFWuZ9

          4 replies 115 retweets 337 likes
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        9. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Jodi Hill: "No books. No T.V. No music. No way to contact the outside." Jodi is a transgender woman forced to try to survive in a male facility. She had to wait to get out of solitary to find a way to create. Just some of her extraordinary art produced for this project:pic.twitter.com/fuCRcWzo3Z

          5 replies 90 retweets 318 likes
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        10. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          The vast majority of the world has ended long-term solitary confinement. While we fill the streets with demands that the police stop killing Black & poor people, we must not forget those men and women suffering in solitary confinement in Michigan & around the country.pic.twitter.com/g2RSvhtVIZ

          2 replies 95 retweets 331 likes
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        11. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Death penalty isn't only way the state kills. Meet Jon Lancaster. Father. Grandfather. Suffered severe mental illness. Yet still caged in solitary. Shot w/ pepper balls & pepper spray. Restrained for days. They let him “slowly die in plain sight."pic.twitter.com/wCX6nhAYHY

          5 replies 85 retweets 282 likes
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        12. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Erick Johnson: "You said you wanted to hear more ok then hold on to your seat. Because this inhumane treatment to anybody living conditions. The prisons and C.O.s don’t feed us. We received small to little to none food. I enclosed a drawing to show the food trays they give us. "pic.twitter.com/Dw85HcIpL7

          2 replies 57 retweets 193 likes
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        13. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Brian Grimmett: "I dream of just being free, clean of this system. Seeing about how to enjoy my life in society."pic.twitter.com/D9CXicg7zn

          1 reply 29 retweets 169 likes
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        14. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Many people believe solitary confinement is reserved for the “worst of the worst,” whatever that means. This is simply not true. But it’s meant to scare the general public into allowing this form of torture to exist. Artwork, "Lodged Amongst the Chaos," by Roberto D'Avano.pic.twitter.com/fFYAXBQQdu

          3 replies 98 retweets 330 likes
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        15. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Abron Shakir: "I am most passionate about drawing, tattooing, & learning new mediums to express myself. Unfortunately being caged so early in life I never had chance to learn what I enjoyed. Mostly I remember I was at my happiest spending time w/ my family & friends."pic.twitter.com/sq5pNRUgDu

          1 reply 38 retweets 176 likes
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        16. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          In the summer, the temperature could feel over 100 degrees, with no air circulation. People describe the feeling as living inside an oven. If they react or cry out for help, they may be hog-tied, gassed, tased, have their water turned off, or be deprived of sleep.pic.twitter.com/0EjhueZTxv

          1 reply 72 retweets 216 likes
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        17. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Quincy Howard: "I have experienced countless years of all contact being cut off from family, children. Gassed over 100 times with chemical agents, no heat in the winter, no ventilation nor cool air in the summer, the target of foul language, threats, and sour and spoiled food."pic.twitter.com/VPs5I7J15d

          2 replies 58 retweets 183 likes
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        18. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Five days a week, people in solitary in Michigan are permitted out of their cell for one hour, in a caged yard, if they’re lucky, and three 10-minute showers a week. They may only have non-contact visits from family, separated by plexi-glass while they are bound in shackles.pic.twitter.com/R9JXumTx0H

          6 replies 65 retweets 186 likes
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        19. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          We must abolish the torture of solitary confinement. That starts with listening to those who are in it. Right now.pic.twitter.com/xzKuCbiFOo

          4 replies 71 retweets 271 likes
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        20. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          EXPLORE: This new, interactive, searchable, & growing digital archive of over 100 letters from solitary was designed to shift the narrative around the torture & the need to end it in Michigan and around the country. Hear them. Read them. See them.http://silenced.in 

          2 replies 93 retweets 207 likes
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        21. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          TAKE ACTION: Learn more about solitary confinement in Michigan and call on Michigan leaders to end this torture now. http://www.openmidoor.org/contact-leaders/4595277353 …pic.twitter.com/OESDK6abWQ

          7 replies 63 retweets 187 likes
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        22. Scott Hechinger‏Verified account @ScottHech May 13

          Scott Hechinger Retweeted Eden Nelson

          I am so sorry. And thank you for sharing.https://twitter.com/Americagirl72/status/1392897131413864450?s=20 …

          Scott Hechinger added,

          Eden Nelson @Americagirl72
          Replying to @ScottHech
          Unfortunately I don't have the privilege of imagining it. My son has experienced it. In supposedly progressive CA. During the pandemic. In a jail no less where he is presumed innocent. It's devastating for his mental health and mine.
          3 replies 16 retweets 118 likes
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