Let's get this started! Q1: Why are courtrooms important sites of criminalization for survivors of domestic and sexual violence? #FreeThemAll #SurvivedAndPunished
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A1: Courtrooms are where survivors' stories are manipulated into criminal narratives that go into records as "truth." #FreeThemAll #SurvivedAndPunished
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A1: Trials and hearings are often the place where people's fates are decided. Prosecutors figure out how to blame survivors for violence they experienced, for not escaping, for leaving, and any other action they take to stay alive.
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A1: Courtrooms are isolated spaces where administrative violence happens. People are usually not allowed to have cell phones in courtrooms, so the violence can not be recorded and shared widely like examples of police brutality.
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A1: Court brutality is cloaked w/a sterile professionalism and formal rules that makes it seem legitimate and unable to be challenged. But court violence isn't legitimate. It can be just as lethal & devastating as violence by police & prisons.
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A1: Mandatory sentencing has been a way for prosecutors to have more control than judges in the courtroom. Mandatory minimums can keep survivors in prison for decades.
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A1: Prosecutors can also choose what crime to charge survivors with, and will often choose the one with the highest sentence, esp if the survivor is more likely to be seen as a "criminal" due to oppressive stereotypes.
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A1: Prosecutors are a key engine behind the “mass” in “mass incarceration” and intentionally manipulate stories to make survivors “less sympathetic” to juries & the public to secure severe punishments against them.
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