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Writer. Teacher. PhD Candidate studying incarceration, education, & inequality. Author of Counting Descent.

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    May 26

    Christopher Columbus when he got to this country even though the Native Americans were already here

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  2. May 26

    Whenever I think about the times I’ve been bamboozled I think about how the dairy industry created the Got Milk? ™️ campaign which convinced me I needed to drink seveteen glasses of milk per day or else my bones would crumble into dust

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    May 24

    Cash bail is wrong—period. We can’t have two systems of justice: one for the poor and one for the wealthy. But we shouldn’t replace cash bail with another system that over-surveils black and brown communities. Folks don’t need ankle bracelets, they need meaningful support.

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  4. May 26

    Very hype for the Women's World Cup.

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    May 26

    "Incarcerated spaces are, by design, replete with insidious & unethical realities, but one of the most infuriating is how much money people in jail & prison are forced to pay if they want to make a phone call to someone on the outside." -

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    May 26

    absolute must read on how affluent, liberal towns do everything they can to keep brown, black, and low-income people outside their borders

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    May 24

    Last year, people in Connecticut prisons paid $13.2 million for phone calls, 60% of which the private phone company then paid back to the state as a kickback. I wrote about the new bill trying to change that & make phone calls free for incarcerated people.

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    May 24

    Little known fact. Bob Marley’s daughter has kept the Jamaican women’s national team afloat. They are getting ready for their first World Cup.

    Bob Marley's daughter Cedella and others have stepped in the funding breach for the Reggae Girlz. Without Marley, one player said, “There would be no Reggae Girlz.”
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  9. May 24

    The comments here are revealing.

    How has serving impacted you?
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  10. May 24

    If you’re interested in joining the fight in Connecticut follow for updates & consider joining them at the state capital on Tuesday:

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    May 24

    "While prisoners struggle to afford calls to their families, states are making a profit. This must stop now," by by

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    May 24

    Theresa May didn't publicly break down over Windrush, or Grenfell, or disabled people having their benefits cut, or children driven into poverty. In the end, she only publicly shed a tear over her own career.

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  13. May 24

    If you live in Connecticut you should call your state rep and make sure they’re voting for H.B. No 6714 which would allow people in prison to have free phone calls.

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  14. May 24

    Decades of research shows that allowing incarcerated people to stay in touch with their family is one of the most important ways to ensure successful reentry. But private phone companies wield an enormous amount of power and often prevent legislatures from changing the system.

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  15. May 24

    The prison phone industry has grown into a $1.2 billion business and these private phone companies give huge kickbacks to states & municipalities across the country. There’s little incentive for states to reform a system that pays them millions of dollars to do business.

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  16. May 24

    Last year, people in Connecticut prisons paid $13.2 million for phone calls, 60% of which the private phone company then paid back to the state as a kickback. I wrote about the new bill trying to change that & make phone calls free for incarcerated people.

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  17. May 24

    "After 66 years in prison, Phillips is the state’s longest-serving inmate, a stooped and garrulous 85-year-old man whom inmates nicknamed Peanut and who gets around with the help of a worn wooden cane."

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    May 23

    Have you noticed that when the president unilaterally directs $16 bn in bailout payments to agricultural interests, no one says: but how will you pay for it?

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  19. May 24

    “Lady Liberty was originally designed to celebrate the end of slavery, not the arrival of immigrants. Ellis Island, the inspection station through which millions of immigrants passed, didn’t open until six years after the statue was unveiled in 1886.”

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  20. May 23

    Today I had apple butter for the first time & I don’t know where you all have been hiding this life changing delicacy but I’m about to put apple butter on all my toasts, my bagels, my biscuits, I might even throw some in my grits this thing is so good

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