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You just need courage
July 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You just need courage
Modern slavery didn't end... it evolved
#MassIncarceration #TheLandOfTheFree #PrisonIndustrialComplex #JusticeForAll #StorytellingMatters
#MassIncarceration #TheLandOfTheFree #PrisonIndustrialComplex #JusticeForAll #StorytellingMatters
July 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Modern slavery didn't end... it evolved
#MassIncarceration #TheLandOfTheFree #PrisonIndustrialComplex #JusticeForAll #StorytellingMatters
#MassIncarceration #TheLandOfTheFree #PrisonIndustrialComplex #JusticeForAll #StorytellingMatters
This may be the land of the free but do you know where your food comes from?
July 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This may be the land of the free but do you know where your food comes from?
Do you know where yoir food comes from?
July 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Do you know where yoir food comes from?
A cage that feeds a nation, part 1.
July 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A cage that feeds a nation, part 1.
You dont need a list to know right from wrong. Asking for a list when abuse is apprent devalues the survivors of Trump and Epstein' abuse.
July 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You dont need a list to know right from wrong. Asking for a list when abuse is apprent devalues the survivors of Trump and Epstein' abuse.
Congress is covering for pedophiles now? Really?
July 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Congress is covering for pedophiles now? Really?
State and local authorities kept the police report blank for six months while they tried to coverup the 2020 lynching of Breonna Taylor. Then Trump's DOJ tried to recommend no jail time last week.
They want us to forget her, the lynching, and the coverup, but we never will. #sayhername #blm
They want us to forget her, the lynching, and the coverup, but we never will. #sayhername #blm
July 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
State and local authorities kept the police report blank for six months while they tried to coverup the 2020 lynching of Breonna Taylor. Then Trump's DOJ tried to recommend no jail time last week.
They want us to forget her, the lynching, and the coverup, but we never will. #sayhername #blm
They want us to forget her, the lynching, and the coverup, but we never will. #sayhername #blm
Why would Trump's senior lawyers race to see somebody just before she testifies in Congress?
Witness tampering more blatant than Godfather II!
Witness tampering more blatant than Godfather II!
July 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Why would Trump's senior lawyers race to see somebody just before she testifies in Congress?
Witness tampering more blatant than Godfather II!
Witness tampering more blatant than Godfather II!
July 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Masks they Wear #maskoff #abolishice #authoritarianism #silenceiscompliance #historyrepeatsitself
July 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Masks they Wear #maskoff #abolishice #authoritarianism #silenceiscompliance #historyrepeatsitself
Oh, FDJT
Trump just posted an AI generated video of Obama being arrested in the oval office.
July 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Oh, FDJT
Don't stay silent in the face of fascism! #survivor #ice #storytellingmatters #venerablevoice #prison ##wrongfullyconvicted #thisisamerica
July 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Don't stay silent in the face of fascism! #survivor #ice #storytellingmatters #venerablevoice #prison ##wrongfullyconvicted #thisisamerica
#VenerableVoice #NarrativeJustice #WrongfulIncarceration #DEI #JusticeReform #TraumaInformed #LiteraryResistance
July 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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"According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, suicide is the leading cause of unnatural deaths in prison. Between 2001 and 2019, more than 4,400 people [died via suicide] in state and federal prisons."
"As a Gulf War veteran, I knew the brutalities of combat. I could recognize indifference to evil. I had overcome bouts with post-traumatic stress disorder after the war, but I had no encounters with other psychological illnesses."
Fighting in War Still Didn’t Prepare Me for Prison’s Mental Health Crisis
I overcame PTSD after fighting in war, but I had no encounters with other mental illnesses until I helped people in crisis at my prison.
prisonjournalismproject.org
June 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, suicide is the leading cause of unnatural deaths in prison. Between 2001 and 2019, more than 4,400 people [died via suicide] in state and federal prisons."
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📖 OUT TODAY! The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits is available at all major book retailers and many local bookstores across the U.S.
All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend!
worthrises.org/theprisonind...
All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend!
worthrises.org/theprisonind...
Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
worthrises.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📖 OUT TODAY! The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits is available at all major book retailers and many local bookstores across the U.S.
All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend!
worthrises.org/theprisonind...
All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend!
worthrises.org/theprisonind...
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The fourth installment of the SPLC’s "Whose Heritage?" report offers an evolving assessment of the threats and harms that find continued life through Confederate symbols, “Lost Cause” narratives and ideologies of white supremacy.
➡️ Read it here: www.splcenter.org
➡️ Read it here: www.splcenter.org
July 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The fourth installment of the SPLC’s "Whose Heritage?" report offers an evolving assessment of the threats and harms that find continued life through Confederate symbols, “Lost Cause” narratives and ideologies of white supremacy.
➡️ Read it here: www.splcenter.org
➡️ Read it here: www.splcenter.org
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🚨The SPLC's 2024 #YearInHate & Extremism report tracked 1,371 U.S. hate and antigovernment extremist groups 🔗: www.splcenter.org/yihe2024
Some used tactics like violence and propaganda to manipulate our political system — causing division, demoralizing people and dismantling democracy. 🧵#YIHE24
Some used tactics like violence and propaganda to manipulate our political system — causing division, demoralizing people and dismantling democracy. 🧵#YIHE24
May 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🚨The SPLC's 2024 #YearInHate & Extremism report tracked 1,371 U.S. hate and antigovernment extremist groups 🔗: www.splcenter.org/yihe2024
Some used tactics like violence and propaganda to manipulate our political system — causing division, demoralizing people and dismantling democracy. 🧵#YIHE24
Some used tactics like violence and propaganda to manipulate our political system — causing division, demoralizing people and dismantling democracy. 🧵#YIHE24