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Wadding through the shitfuckery while I echo in my chamber.
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"Many jails & prisons have looked for ways to actively disincentivize [medical] care & shift the financial burden to incarcerated people & their families." Anna Anderson of @nclc4consumers.bsky.social on the staggering medical debt foisted onto incarcerated people
Medical Debt Behind Bars - Anna Anderson - Inquest
Incarcerated people accrue debt for nearly all of their medical care. This makes a mockery of their right to health care—and saddles them with devastating debt upon release.
inquest.org
September 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system.

Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by YOUR elected officials.
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March 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Solitary confinement is a form of torture – and virtual reality cannot change that.

If prisons want to reduce the harms of solitary, they should simply stop throwing people into it.
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March 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Inside Texas Prisons, Women Smuggle Eyeshadow — and Risk Solitary — to ‘Feel Human’
Inside Texas Prisons, Women Smuggle Eyeshadow — and Risk Solitary — to ‘Feel Human’
Editor’s note: Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated journalist in Texas whose work is supported by Empowerment Avenue, an organization that seeks to increase and normalize the inclusion of incarcerated w...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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NO KINGS LIVE HERE.
March 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Fun Fact: Democrats are wearing pink tonight as a symbolic protest against people who want them to do something meaningful
March 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As someone who worked for the ODOC for two decades, directly with incarcerated people, I can say definitively that these people are abused by the ODOC medical system. The ODOC MUST move its health care outside of the department!
February 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Every day I have to hear about some asshole
February 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The sad truth is that many Americans already understand that sexual violence is a core feature of incarceration and simply think a different set of people should be subjected to it.
February 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The surge in private prison stocks since Trump’s reelection highlights a stark truth: these companies' bottom line is tied directly to the expansion of mass immigrant detention.
What Trump’s Victory Means for the Private Prison Industry
The two largest companies that manage detention centers and correctional facilities are poised to profit from aggressive immigration policies.
www.brennancenter.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Inauguration day.
December 1, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Trying to work every day like everything is normal.
December 1, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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hearing the nominees in the news every day
December 1, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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Checking the Checking election night
Selzer poll vs actuals
December 1, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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Don’t leave people out of conversations that directly concern them.
November 24, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Brilliant. He he he!
November 23, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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MOOD.
November 22, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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had this thought a lot recently
November 24, 2024 at 1:20 AM