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All across the nation tomorrow, millions of people who love America will gather for “No Kings” rallies. Louise and I will be at Railroad Park in Birmingham at 10 am. Please make the effort to show up at a rally near you and demonstatrate your love for America and democracy
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
All across the nation tomorrow, millions of people who love America will gather for “No Kings” rallies. Louise and I will be at Railroad Park in Birmingham at 10 am. Please make the effort to show up at a rally near you and demonstatrate your love for America and democracy
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Above all, trust was the foundation for every success.
Participatory research proved most effective where relationships were strong and communication consistent.
Read the full PRII report here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
#PRII #CriminalJustice #Reform #Research
Participatory research proved most effective where relationships were strong and communication consistent.
Read the full PRII report here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
#PRII #CriminalJustice #Reform #Research
What We Learned about Participatory Research in Prisons
This report for the Urban Institute’s Prison Research and Innovation Initiative (PRII) documents the challenges and opportunities in improving prison living …
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October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Above all, trust was the foundation for every success.
Participatory research proved most effective where relationships were strong and communication consistent.
Read the full PRII report here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
#PRII #CriminalJustice #Reform #Research
Participatory research proved most effective where relationships were strong and communication consistent.
Read the full PRII report here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
#PRII #CriminalJustice #Reform #Research
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5. Pair research with early wins.
Small, low-cost improvements—better staff training, clearer grievance communication—build trust and show that feedback leads to change.
6. Work beyond the walls.
Reform strengthens when DOCs connect with policymakers and community partners.
Small, low-cost improvements—better staff training, clearer grievance communication—build trust and show that feedback leads to change.
6. Work beyond the walls.
Reform strengthens when DOCs connect with policymakers and community partners.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
5. Pair research with early wins.
Small, low-cost improvements—better staff training, clearer grievance communication—build trust and show that feedback leads to change.
6. Work beyond the walls.
Reform strengthens when DOCs connect with policymakers and community partners.
Small, low-cost improvements—better staff training, clearer grievance communication—build trust and show that feedback leads to change.
6. Work beyond the walls.
Reform strengthens when DOCs connect with policymakers and community partners.
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3. Identify a project champion.
A trusted staff leader who bridges groups can sustain progress and morale.
4. Use efficient, inclusive research methods.
Short surveys, interviews, and walkabouts reduce burden and encourage participation.
A trusted staff leader who bridges groups can sustain progress and morale.
4. Use efficient, inclusive research methods.
Short surveys, interviews, and walkabouts reduce burden and encourage participation.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
3. Identify a project champion.
A trusted staff leader who bridges groups can sustain progress and morale.
4. Use efficient, inclusive research methods.
Short surveys, interviews, and walkabouts reduce burden and encourage participation.
A trusted staff leader who bridges groups can sustain progress and morale.
4. Use efficient, inclusive research methods.
Short surveys, interviews, and walkabouts reduce burden and encourage participation.
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1. Leadership buy-in matters.
Lasting change requires ongoing support from the top and middle levels of management, as well as daily reinforcement from staff who carry reforms forward.
2. Address “us vs. them” dynamics early.
Lasting change requires ongoing support from the top and middle levels of management, as well as daily reinforcement from staff who carry reforms forward.
2. Address “us vs. them” dynamics early.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
1. Leadership buy-in matters.
Lasting change requires ongoing support from the top and middle levels of management, as well as daily reinforcement from staff who carry reforms forward.
2. Address “us vs. them” dynamics early.
Lasting change requires ongoing support from the top and middle levels of management, as well as daily reinforcement from staff who carry reforms forward.
2. Address “us vs. them” dynamics early.
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Across five states, PRII partners found that change in prisons depends on relationships, transparency, and follow-through. Engagement must include everyone: commissioners, wardens, line staff, and incarcerated people.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Across five states, PRII partners found that change in prisons depends on relationships, transparency, and follow-through. Engagement must include everyone: commissioners, wardens, line staff, and incarcerated people.
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We found that participatory approaches can work in prisons when leadership and staff are engaged, trust is built over time, and both staff and incarcerated people see tangible results from their input.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We found that participatory approaches can work in prisons when leadership and staff are engaged, trust is built over time, and both staff and incarcerated people see tangible results from their input.
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After six years of work across five state DOCs, @urbaninstitute.bsky.social and partners share key findings from the Prison Research and Innovation Initiative (PRII), a study of how community-engaged methods can improve prison operations and culture. 🧵
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
After six years of work across five state DOCs, @urbaninstitute.bsky.social and partners share key findings from the Prison Research and Innovation Initiative (PRII), a study of how community-engaged methods can improve prison operations and culture. 🧵
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Good morning. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back tonight, but not on Sinclair, including ABC 33/40 here in Alabama. Disney / ABC should play hardball. Don't air Jimmy Kimmel? We don't allow you to air our sports coverage, including the Alabama game, this weekend. Everyone would panic!
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Good morning. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back tonight, but not on Sinclair, including ABC 33/40 here in Alabama. Disney / ABC should play hardball. Don't air Jimmy Kimmel? We don't allow you to air our sports coverage, including the Alabama game, this weekend. Everyone would panic!
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Sinclair Broadcasting says they're not going to air Kimmel Live. Number one that can fuck themselves because everybody streams anyway, number two we need to bombard their top advertisers and demand they pull their ads.
ABC 33/40 Birmingham AL
Here's a few
•Nationwide
•KFC
•GEICO
•Trustmark
•Chevy
ABC 33/40 Birmingham AL
Here's a few
•Nationwide
•KFC
•GEICO
•Trustmark
•Chevy
September 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Sinclair Broadcasting says they're not going to air Kimmel Live. Number one that can fuck themselves because everybody streams anyway, number two we need to bombard their top advertisers and demand they pull their ads.
ABC 33/40 Birmingham AL
Here's a few
•Nationwide
•KFC
•GEICO
•Trustmark
•Chevy
ABC 33/40 Birmingham AL
Here's a few
•Nationwide
•KFC
•GEICO
•Trustmark
•Chevy
RIP (Sorry this is one day late)
September 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
RIP (Sorry this is one day late)
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Will the 2nd Amendment protect us? Don’t be silly. But the 6th might. Let’s discuss.
August 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Will the 2nd Amendment protect us? Don’t be silly. But the 6th might. Let’s discuss.
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"National news organizations get criticized for insufficient volume and prominence of protest coverage. That was especially the case with Hands Off," writes Tom Arenberg, an instructor of news media at the University of Alabama. birminghamwatch.org/2025/06/11/t...
The Many Problems With Media Coverage of Protests - BirminghamWatch
The organizer of a local protest asked the big newspaper in town if it planned to cover the event. The answer was no. The organizer paused. “Then maybe we won’t do it.”
birminghamwatch.org
June 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"National news organizations get criticized for insufficient volume and prominence of protest coverage. That was especially the case with Hands Off," writes Tom Arenberg, an instructor of news media at the University of Alabama. birminghamwatch.org/2025/06/11/t...
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New research by @fwd.us found that people with an immediate family member in prison spend over $4,000 every year on their loved one who is incarcerated.
Our families deserve better.
Our families deserve better.
The true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize, researchers say
A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year — almost four times the government's estimate for ...
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June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New research by @fwd.us found that people with an immediate family member in prison spend over $4,000 every year on their loved one who is incarcerated.
Our families deserve better.
Our families deserve better.
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Alabamafication is the politics of cutting off your nose to spite your face. When we kill scholarship programs meant to help black med students, our face is a bloodily, mutilated mess, and good luck finding a doctor to help with that. From @johnarchibald.bsky.social www.al.com/news/2025/04...
Archibald: UAB fears Trump reprisals, kills scholarship for Black med students
"They're just another parrot parroting the same misguided racial nonsense and tropes."
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April 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Alabamafication is the politics of cutting off your nose to spite your face. When we kill scholarship programs meant to help black med students, our face is a bloodily, mutilated mess, and good luck finding a doctor to help with that. From @johnarchibald.bsky.social www.al.com/news/2025/04...
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"The intent is not to harm theater or anything like that. The intent, of course, is to eliminate drag.”
OK but drag is a form of theater. Gonna allow Peter Pan but not Caberet? What's the line? Who's allowed to have fun pretending and who's forbidden to do so?
alabamareflector.com/2025/04/24/p...
OK but drag is a form of theater. Gonna allow Peter Pan but not Caberet? What's the line? Who's allowed to have fun pretending and who's forbidden to do so?
alabamareflector.com/2025/04/24/p...
Proposed Alabama drag ban could impact high school theater productions | Alabama Reflector
Theater groups say the bill's use of "sex identity" would limit the ability of women to take on men's roles in school productions.
alabamareflector.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"The intent is not to harm theater or anything like that. The intent, of course, is to eliminate drag.”
OK but drag is a form of theater. Gonna allow Peter Pan but not Caberet? What's the line? Who's allowed to have fun pretending and who's forbidden to do so?
alabamareflector.com/2025/04/24/p...
OK but drag is a form of theater. Gonna allow Peter Pan but not Caberet? What's the line? Who's allowed to have fun pretending and who's forbidden to do so?
alabamareflector.com/2025/04/24/p...
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That’s a win-win. The state gets accountability and revenue. Judges and clerks don’t waste time chasing debtors who can’t pay. Debtors pay their debt and ideally deterred from doing whatever illegal thing they did to incur it.
April 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
That’s a win-win. The state gets accountability and revenue. Judges and clerks don’t waste time chasing debtors who can’t pay. Debtors pay their debt and ideally deterred from doing whatever illegal thing they did to incur it.
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Since 2023, I have done DOJ-funded work aimed at making the assessment and collections process associated with court fines and fees more fair and efficient.
DOJ just terminated the project.
DOJ just terminated the project.
April 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Since 2023, I have done DOJ-funded work aimed at making the assessment and collections process associated with court fines and fees more fair and efficient.
DOJ just terminated the project.
DOJ just terminated the project.
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This project was intended to improve revenue collection processes while also making the criminal legal system more fair while simultaneously reducing waste in use of judicial resources.
Anyway it’s dead now because apparently those goals are worthless.
Gonna go cry now.
Anyway it’s dead now because apparently those goals are worthless.
Gonna go cry now.
April 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This project was intended to improve revenue collection processes while also making the criminal legal system more fair while simultaneously reducing waste in use of judicial resources.
Anyway it’s dead now because apparently those goals are worthless.
Gonna go cry now.
Anyway it’s dead now because apparently those goals are worthless.
Gonna go cry now.
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I swore I would never be one of those columnists who writes about me pets.
But dammit, sometimes the world needs you to write about your pets. Hope you'll read this one.
www.al.com/news/2025/04...
But dammit, sometimes the world needs you to write about your pets. Hope you'll read this one.
www.al.com/news/2025/04...
Archibald: Why dogs deserve obituaries
He reminded me that we all have a lot more in common than we think.
www.al.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I swore I would never be one of those columnists who writes about me pets.
But dammit, sometimes the world needs you to write about your pets. Hope you'll read this one.
www.al.com/news/2025/04...
But dammit, sometimes the world needs you to write about your pets. Hope you'll read this one.
www.al.com/news/2025/04...
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Like, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”-level serious
JUST IN: Judge James Donato, handling an antisemitism suit against Berkeley, says he doesn't want to decide if Zionism is a 'central tenet' of Judaism. The Obama appointee sees 'serious constitutional problem' in doing so. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
BerkeleyAntiSemitismOrd040125
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April 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Like, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”-level serious