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Let's get this started! Q1: Why are courtrooms important sites of criminalization for survivors of domestic and sexual violence? #FreeThemAll #SurvivedAndPunished

A1: Courtrooms are where survivors' stories are manipulated into criminal narratives that go into records as "truth." #FreeThemAll #SurvivedAndPunished

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. #FreeThemAll #SurvivedAndPunished

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. #FreeThemAll #SurvivedAndPunished

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. #FreeThemAll #SurvivedAndPunished