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Sep 18, 2021

THREAD: When I got arrested, a woman I met my first day in jail told me I should take notes on everything and someday write a book. A decade later, I FINALLY have – and now you can buy it here. I wish she had lived to see this.

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Alex Stuckey

@alexdstuckey

I spent days search county and federal court records to come up with this list. But it's 1,000 percent possible I missed some. Do you notice a case missing? Please let me know! This database is a living, breathing document and we want to keep it updated.

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Read and download copies of jail lawsuits filed against Harris County in our interactive table compiled by @alexdstuckey: houstonlanding.org/search-our-dat #hounews This is part of our first major investigation at @hou_landing. Contact Alex if you have tips. We're listening.

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A database of jail lawsuits filed against Harris County

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP

@clairezagorski

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The gap in the above-ground market is already being filled by the clandestine market. All of the street-sourced “adderall” I’ve seen in the past ~18 months in the southwest has been meth.

posted this recently about Adderall from Mexican pharmacies. (Next tweet.) 1/

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Ryan McNeil

@RS_McNeil

May 12

That the DEA is actively hindering access to Adderall and driving people to meth is not getting nearly enough attention.

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Ryan McNeil

@RS_McNeil

May 12

That the DEA is actively hindering access to Adderall and driving people to meth is not getting nearly enough attention.

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Miya Shay

@miyashay

May 12

Selfies with some fun folks at the

@HCCLA_org

tonight. Always a good place to get the legal pulse of H-town.

swung through for an award! New Prez is the always quotable

@murraynewman

. See you all in court next week!

Krish Gundu

@kinsngops

Honored to share this with the one and only

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Huge congratulations to our co-founder and executive director Krish Gundu @kinsngops on being recognized for her work by @HCCLA_org the largest defense bar in the country. Krish hates the spotlight so we wanted to make sure to shine as big a light on her as possible!

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HCCLA Awards 2023
Torch of Liberty
Keri Blakinger and Texas Jail Project Co-Founder Krishnaveni Gundu

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I tried using AI to wade through my jail mail and... I mean, this is very cute of the AI to think the guy on the row is going to come visit me. Not quite.

THE FEDS ARE FOLLOWING ME 😱

I've been trying to get enough copies of my book donated to have one for every person in the women's pods at the Harris County Jail. The paperback comes out in June and I'm a little over halfway there. Thank you everyone! And here's the donation link: 800ceoread.com/coupons/redeem

LA County Civilian Oversight Commission

@LACountyCOC

Can people get well in a cell? Monday 5/22 9-11am The 2nd conference on

@LASDHQ

Jails will focus on institutional services for rehabilitation including physical & mental health services, education-based programs & community connections. Register bit.ly/41poNQC

Can people get well in a cell? Conference 5/22

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WhO fIrEd aLl tHe cOPyEdiTorS

Update: dude reeked of weed and pulled out a pillow and blanket soon as the plane took off and was knocked the fuck out the whole time and honestly not even mad about the shoes anymore. So happy for this guy living his best plane life.

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The dude across the aisle from me on this plane just sat down and immediately took his fucking shoes off what in the actual fuck is happening here I cannotttttt

The dude across the aisle from me on this plane just sat down and immediately took his fucking shoes off what in the actual fuck is happening here I cannotttttt

Rob Rand Wants Justice for the Menendez Brothers

@MenendezRand

“In the L.A. area we are seeing xylazine as an additive within fake fentanyl pills. While the numbers are relatively low compared to elsewhere in the U.S., the presence of xylazine is now becoming more frequent and the trend is concerning.” Via

Sheriff's Dept. program to track presence of flesh-eating street drug in Los Angeles

The push to better track the presence of xylazine came weeks before UCLA researchers documented their first positive street drug sample.

Inside the Frustrating, Error-Ridden, Expensive World of Prison Messaging

Sharing this excellent article mostly out of spite because after two weeks or so, I still cannot get this godforsaken app to work.

slate.com

Prison messaging apps are a lifeline—until they break.

Sylvia

@sylvia_nyc

Mayor Adams is arguing that Jordan Neely was murdered because the government doesn’t involuntarily commit enough people

Tweets from reporter Joe Anuta on Mayor Adams’ presser about the murder of Jordan Neely.

Tweet 1:
Joe Anuta
@joeanuta
·@NYCMayor
is talking about the process for involuntary commitment, which he took heat for early in his admin. He says through a task force, the city has brought people in crisis into hospitals and care, though the mayor did not get into numbers

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"This is the kind of care Jordan needed and so many were trying to get for him."

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Chelsea L. Shover, PhD

@ChelseaLShover

LASD will track xylazine in law enforcement seizures --

@latimes

. And yes, we found it in a tar heroin sample. So, it's here. Xylazine test strips are available now, can order yr own from BTNX, or hit us up for a few. Cc

@Cate_Molina

Sheriff's Dept. program to track presence of flesh-eating street drug in Los Angeles

The push to better track the presence of xylazine came weeks before UCLA researchers documented their first positive street drug sample.

The annotations on this filing are killing me

Hector Becerra

@hbecerraLATimes

Sheriff's Dept. to track presence of flesh-eating street drug appearing in Los Angeles - Los Angeles Times ⁦

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Sheriff's Dept. program to track presence of flesh-eating street drug in Los Angeles

The push to better track the presence of xylazine came weeks before UCLA researchers documented their first positive street drug sample.

Jolie McCullough

@jsmccullou

Breaking: Daniel Perry is sentenced to 25 years for the murder of Garrett Foster in an Austin protest.

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I just wrote that I had a "nontraditional path" to journalism and that phrasing will never not be hilarious to me considering what I'm describing here...

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James Queally

@JamesQueallyLAT

BREAKING: Sources telling me a teen died of an overdose in one of L.A. County’s troubled juvenile halls this morning, just weeks after a state board declined to shut the facilities down.

Teen dies of overdose in troubled L.A. County juvenile hall, sources say

A teenager was found dead of an overdose in an L.A. County juvenile hall on Tuesday morning, just weeks after a county report raised alarms about rampant drug use among youths housed in the same...

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To whom it may concern, I am emailing to submit a Public Records Act request…

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James Queally

@JamesQueallyLAT

The day after a bunch of fiction and journalism awards come out you have a few options: 1) Be Happy For Your Friends 2) Be Bitter You're Not Them 3) Be Up Filing Records Requests And Doing Book Edits Before Court So You Can Eliminate Option 2.

James Queally

@JamesQueallyLAT

Evil MoPac

@EvilMopacATX

I had my 🤖ChatGPT Bot🤖 read every Austin tweet over the last month and then write a script about it Here's page one...

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VictoriaLaw

@LVikkiml

This morning's message from incarcerated abuse survivor: "Please remember your work is important. You will reap bountiful harvest as you keep sowing into good soil."

Fun thing about living in LA is you end up with actors for housemates and instead of talking in their sleep they sing and do vocal exercises

Grits for Breakfast

@Grits4Breakfast

The police-union bill to roll back Austin's Prop A died yesterday evening in the House Urban Affairs Committee on a 2-7 vote. Rumor has it the Governor is mad about it and may demand a re-vote, but that's a decent margin to overcome, and time in session is growing short.

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I've got my paperback preordered and I cannot wait. (I initially borrowed a copy from the library, but I realized I'd want to highlight/write in the margins too much!)

I think

is cool. I also think

is a good writer. So, I am buying a copy of her book to send to a prisoner.

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May 8

My book comes out in paperback in a month! Buy a copy for someone in jail here

800ceoread.com/coupons/redeem

May 8

My book comes out in paperback in a month! Buy a copy for someone in jail here 🖤 800ceoread.com/coupons/redeem

Sarah Weinman

@sarahw

May 8

Congrats to all of the Anthony Award nominees, and pleased to be one of them.

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Shooting Death of Everett Byram at the Hands of LASD

New for

: a white man who previously mocked people of color killed by police was killed by an alleged member of a white supremacist deputy gang. Everett Bryam was the 3rd person who had a violent encounter with Deputy Blake Runge.

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A man who previously mocked people of color killed by police was killed by an alleged member of a white supremacist deputy gang.

Joshua Vaughn

@JoshuaPVaughn

Just In: A 60-year-old man held on $5k bail who had been waiting nearly 9 months for a competency hearing has died at Dauphin County Prison. The man’s competency hearing was scheduled for Wednesday but officers found him unresponsive in his cell this morning.

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Sarah Weinman

@sarahw

Before this website dies, another reminder that ancestry dot com is one of the best investigative reporting tools around

Pamela Colloff

@pamelacolloff

A highlight of going to a

@niemanfdn

event this past week: a lot of investigative reporters ended up in the ladies’ room at the same time; we talked about how few women used to get to do this kind of work and how now there were so many of us that there was a line for the bathroom

Elyza Halpern (a.k.a. possumgirl)

@elyzawithawhy

When you get cast as Lumiere in “Beauty and the Beast” but you wanted to be Belle

Jennifer Hesketh Aviles

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Excellent book. Have recommended it to many people.

Karen K. Ho

@karenkho

if you want to read an actual account of what it's like to be a woman in a US prison and also report on the systemic failures behind the daily horrific treatment of prisoners, you should buy