Caught in the Storm: How Florida Prisons Responded to Hurricane Milton
More than 20,000 people are incarcerated in counties that were subject to evacuation orders. Many officials refused to evacuate them.
Updating Zaharibu's music list with:
Ronny Jordan: At last
Now playing: Now 'Til Forever, by Kirk Whalum
Gavin Newsom’s Prison Reform Isn’t Progress—It’s a ‘Near Enemy’
By Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
Californians have been demanding a course correction away from mass incarceration for over a decade, and earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom announced his “California Model” for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), an ill-defined set of proposals sold as a ...
https://theappeal.org/gavin-newsom-california-model-prison-reform/
When News Outlets Fabricate Stories
SB 94 would simply allow judges to consider mitigating circumstances that are important to courts today, but were not thought of three decades ago.
By Devin D. Williams
https://www.laprogressive.com/prison-reform-2/when-news-outlets-fabricate-stories
Free Leonard Peltier: Indigenous rights advocates take fight for clemency to the United Nations
UPDATE: This is the THIRD DEATH in ONE WEEK at Men's Central Jail, and LASD's 29th in-custody death this year.
Reminder that MCJ is a dilapidated 60-year-old facility the county said they would close earlier this year, but failed to. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-30/dangerous-l-a-jail-reaches-shutdown-target-date-with-no-closure-in-sight
Angeles jails just posted their 30TH in-custody death for this year.
It happened on 8/11, which means that there were four in-custody deaths there in nine days.
This year is on track to be deadlier than at the height of covid.
Justice for Willie Simmons
Prisonwatch
Free Mumia Berlin
Keri Blakinger
