A philosopher who works in applied ethics + political theory with a focus on prison abolition, philosophy of race, law and technology, and aesthetics.Joined March 2024
"Those who led the Attica uprising wanted humane treatment. Their bravery resulted in meaningful improvements. . . . Those gains have largely been eroded. We want them back." Incarcerated artist Joseph Wilson on perpetual lockdown conditions of NY prisons. inquest.org/never-forget-a…
Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, @CraigOGilmore@lydiajean8 & @judahscheptinquest.org/abolitionist-l…
NEW BOOK! I think I forgot to tell everyone that I wrote a book. It’s the longest thread about the prison industry I’ve ever written, and it’s out this week. I’m honored by the response so far. Please get a copy!
A key feature of copaganda is that police and the news media attempt to use crises to increase the size, power, and profit of the punishment and surveillance bureaucracies. This has long been one of the creepiest things about it. They don’t let a good crisis go to waste.
In today’s fawning tribute to the NYPD’s surveillance system, the paper celebrates surveillance and even laments that New York does not have enough. That’s the thrust of the entire article.
My two already rehabbed Venus fly traps in the back, ones I saved from Walmart yesterday in the front. Everyone's getting repotted in sphagnum moss today.
Fell asleep reading CIA documents about sensory deprivation and overload for torture, wake up and get back to writing about dehumanization form the state. Toddlers ate my breakfast. Good morning.
Every term I have only 1 or 2 out of a 100 students who have ever even heard of Angela Davis before we read her in class. That's wild and probably shouldn't be surprising to me, but it is. Anyways, glad to be the person who introduces them. Tomorrow is Davis day.
The agreement between ADOC and UAB referred to in this article is ILLEGAL. State law requires medical examiners to notify and obtain consent from next of kin before retaining organs for research purposes. ADOC can neither give consent nor relieve UAB of its duty to get consent.
The agreement between ADOC and UAB referred to in this article is ILLEGAL. State law requires medical examiners to notify and obtain consent from next of kin before retaining organs for research purposes. ADOC can neither give consent nor relieve UAB of its duty to get consent.
A headline that will stop you in your tracks: The Private Prisons Industry Is Changing What Constitutes “Food”
This important piece highlights the detrimental impact of the predatory for-profit prison food industry: filtermag.org/private-prison…
4K Followers 4K FollowingFull Professor of Criminology @uOttawa researching criminalization-imprisonment-alternatives. Member of @jpp1988 @CarceralCulture @CPEPgroup & @CappKemptville
111 Followers 84 FollowingMember of the Black Prisoners Caucus, Co-Chair of T.E.A.C.H., & a writer through Empowerment Avenue. Currently serving life without the possibility of parole.
742 Followers 1K FollowingA growing active group of advocates who want to increase “Public Safety” by encouraging each other’s passion & unite behind each other. See our FB Group.
2K Followers 2K FollowingUCF Grad, Retired CPA, Public Safety. Less Victims, Less Crime. #FLNative #Education #Eleven22 #Bridger With your comments provide documentation. Facts matter.
106K Followers 2K FollowingWorker-led nonprofit exposing the harms of the criminal legal system & elevating solutions.
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15K Followers 301 FollowingA podcast on incarceration and prison abolition that elevates people directly impacted by the system. Hosted by @phillyprof03 & @bsonenstein.
29K Followers 675 Followingnat'l volunteer organization working to end the criminalization of all survivors of domestic & sexual violence. #FreeThemAll
23K Followers 425 FollowingIC offers research, learning, connection & practice for organizers working to end criminalization, policing & punishment. Led by @dreanyc123 & Mariame Kaba.
17K Followers 506 FollowingNew York formation of @survivepunish. Volunteers working to end the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence. #FreeThemNY #FreeThemAll
46K Followers 561 FollowingA US-based, national grassroots organization working to build an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). #AbolitionNow
111 Followers 72 FollowingBuilding community at the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities & incarceration -- penpals, legal aid, reentry support. Grounded in abolition ❤️🔥
296K Followers 2K FollowingMedia that builds power for working people. Emmy-winning nonprofit newsroom.
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16K Followers 401 Following@Amazon & @Google workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w Israel
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297 Followers 6 FollowingCarceral Cultures aims to generate knowledge about Canada’s culture of punishment that informs and gives meaning to related penal policies and practices.
4K Followers 4K FollowingFull Professor of Criminology @uOttawa researching criminalization-imprisonment-alternatives. Member of @jpp1988 @CarceralCulture @CPEPgroup & @CappKemptville
170K Followers 39K FollowingTruthout is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.
13K Followers 2K FollowingDirector, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. Co-editor, “We Grow the World Together.” Coauthor, "Prison by Any Other Name." @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
14K Followers 288 FollowingFreelance journo & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket 2024)
5K Followers 914 FollowingThe Pretrial Justice Institute advances safe, fair, and effective juvenile and adult pretrial justice practices and policies that protect and honor all people.
85K Followers 5K FollowingWe are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people to transform America. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
70K Followers 4K FollowingChallenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://t.co/AyYiUayx2n
83K Followers 2K Followinghttps://t.co/bhFHZbJ5VN | rooting for everyone resisting oppression | slowly transitioning from social media | author, Becoming Abolitionists
364K Followers 4K FollowingCatalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements..
27K Followers 793 FollowingChallenging systemic injustice in the US legal system and changing the narrative around the punishment bureaucracy. On bluesky: @civrightscorps.bsky.social
159K Followers 27 Followingfounder, @CivRightsCorps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
views here are my own, not civil rights corps
2K Followers 2K FollowingUCF Grad, Retired CPA, Public Safety. Less Victims, Less Crime. #FLNative #Education #Eleven22 #Bridger With your comments provide documentation. Facts matter.
163 Followers 494 FollowingI did 17 years in prison 7 years straight in Solitary Confinement.
End Solitary Confinement in the United States of America .
Halt Solitary!!!
555 Followers 52 FollowingStill She Rises is the first holistic defense office in the country dedicated exclusively to representing mothers in both the criminal and civil legal systems.
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