Thanks @decarceratear.bsky.social

Going into organizing session to plan for what’s needed to challenge mass incarceration given the current moment in Arkansas and nationally.

Inspiring panel focused on storytelling of persons with lived experience sharing their experiences with mass incarceration.

Emile DeWeaver led the convening in a campaign planning session. @decarceratear.bsky.social

I joined Ashley Hunt to discuss the film #AndWaterBringsTomorrow on prison closures and repurposing.

@decarceratear.bsky.social and their allies are fighting to stop a 3,000 bed prison in Arkansas.

Retired Judge Griffen delivered a decarceration sermon.

Judge Griffen started with what contributed to prison population growth in Arkansas and the country.

It’s the 6th conference built w/ liberation activists including people who survived life w/o parole sentences like Kaleem Nazeem with @decarceratear.bsky.social

Kaleem survived more than 20 years in prison & was disappeared before he was 18.

He shared he registered to vote after leaving prison.

Spending the next few days in Little Rock where there are residents challenging mass incarceration and working to decarcerate ✊🏾

@decarceratear.bsky.social #decarcerateAR #endmassincarceration

I thought the occupier at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW sounded like he was prepping for a real estate deal through anti Black -displacement policies, given his pretext of "public safety" to justify his authoritarian takeover. #FDT

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

Some of the most exciting work I’ve been able to do in recent years is The Sentencing Project’s convening to bring advocacy organizers & researchers together to support campaigns expanding voting rights to persons living w/ felony convictions inside & outside of carceral lockups. #CivicPower2025

Who else has family or friends impacted by this administration’s outrageous policies?

My Dad told me about this today and I am livid @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov

Those guys on the corner deserve it all too. In the midst of potential state divestment what can we build and work on to guarantee a present and future that recognizes inherent humanity and an entitlement to thrive? 🖤🥷🏾🥷🏿🖤 Leave no one behind ❤️💚🖤

Can a Black kid thrive in a former prison? My freedom dream is yes! After the cells and bars have been pulled out. And the building reimagined for a different purpose - completely. 🧵

Article: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/b...

[Photo credit] Susana Raab for The New York Times

As 2024 comes to close, I want to share a few highlights from the past year. 🧵

Advocacy organizers and officials in at least nine states advanced reforms in 2024 that may contribute to decarceration, expand and guarantee voting rights for justice impacted citizens, and advance youth justice reforms

"Abolition will be an important guide as we tackle the new political terrain... The courts will not save us, and this will be even more true in the years to come."

truthout.org/articles/tru...

During the 2024 election cycle, 4 million people were disenfranchised from voting due to a felon conviction.

More here: www.sentencingproject.org/reports/lock...

The most helpful thing about this commentary is the many times Dowd and her sources use code for "white people" without saying it. #saywhatyoumean