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These posts regarding incarceration and re-entry matters are provided for information purposes only. The Church and this Ministry have taken no positions regarding the content of each post. If you have information you are interested in seeing posted, please send an email. If you have any questions or concerns regarding a post, please send an email.
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2023-0627: The Essentialism of Addiction
We must challenge the dominant narrative that one is born an addict and a criminal—rather than constructed as one by those in power....
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-0628: Tarrant County inmates die in jail custody in 3 days; 1 suspected to have killed himself
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article276805956.html?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=b1ec6d0207-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_3...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-0627: In 'historic' moment, MCI-Framingham prisoners testify live at moratorium hearing
A group of 20 women incarcerated at MCI-Framingham testified live on Zoom at a hearing on Monday — for the first time in legislative...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2017-1011: “Cooking Them to Death”: The Lethal Toll of Hot Prisons
AS THE CLIMATE CHANGES, INMATES WITHOUT AIR-CONDITIONING HAVE NO ESCAPE FROM EXTREME HEAT. IS THIS HAPPENING IN 2023? PROBABLY! ASK!...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
THE MARSHALL PROJECT: WE ARE WITNESSES
The American criminal justice system consists of 2.2 million people behind bars, plus tens of millions of family members, corrections and...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-7July-August: After the Police Kill Your Loved One, Who Can You Lean On?
Breonna Taylor’s aunt and Jacob Blake’s dad are creating a movement of families that support each other. “I don’t want people to be...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-0630: I Survived Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression in Jail. Now I Guide Others Like Me.
As a doula in Georgia prisons and jails, Tabatha Trammell supports incarcerated clients through pregnancy, childbirth — and giving up...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-0629: A Dozen Cities Set Youth Curfews This Year, Even Though They Don’t Reduce Crime
Texas recently banned juvenile curfews, while cities like Baltimore and Memphis have doubled-down on them. https://www.themarshallproject...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-07July: Cops Use Phony Diagnoses To Explain Away Stun Gun Deaths
The National Association of Medical Examiners now says "excited delirium" should not be cited as a cause of death....
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-0627: A Mother Had Three Minutes to Address Her Son’s Killer
Adriana Vance lost her son Raymond in a mass shooting seven months ago. The night before she would face the shooter in court, she still...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-0626: The Deeper Dig: A spate of deaths focuses attention on Vermont prisons and the Department
“There’s a belief that things are going to be messed up there, that you’re not going to be receiving adequate care. And so it has felt...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-0627: LASD SAYS IT WANTS TO KEEP HITTING PEOPLE IN THE HEAD
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has taken legal action against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
2023-MMDD: Has anyone interacted with "Communities Not Cages?"
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.communitiesnotcagesny.org/
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023-0316: Family of Florida man who died while being violently restrained to sue jail staff
Suit alleges that Broward county sheriff’s office used excessive force as Kevin Desir suffered mental health emergency in 2021 GUARDIAN...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023-0329: He invented a push-up machine while in prison for murder. Now he’s at Georgetown
Raashed Hall served nearly 20 years - now he’s getting a second chance through the school’s Pivot program for entrepreneurship GUARDIAN...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023-0315: Florida man serving 400-year sentence freed after being exonerated for robbery
Sidney Holmes, who served 30 years, released after new inquiry found eyewitness identification was likely ‘misidentification’ GUARDIAN...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023-0525: Ex-guard charged with 95 counts of sexual abuse in California women’s prison
Gregory Rodriguez accused of abusing 13 people over a decade, as advocate say case highlights systemic sexual violence in prisons...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023-0526: Incarcerated people use TikTok videos to expose Alabama’s prison conditions
Understaffing, overcrowding and a lack of healthcare fueled a crisis in a state with the world’s highest incarceration rate GUARDIAN LINK:...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023-0501: The last days of death row in California: ‘Your soul is tested here’
After decades locked alone in small cages in San Quentin, men sentenced to die brace for sweeping change GUARDIAN LINK: ...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
2023-0428: UN group to tour Los Angeles jails accused of ‘squalid, inhumane’ conditions
Advocates say it will cast welcome attention on a system mired in scandals of prisoner mistreatment and racial injustice GUARDIAN LINK: ...
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
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