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4 years ago, at a @NOAH_Action meeting, I asked @DaronHall7 if this was possible. He entertained my question in good faith and asked for time to explore it, which he and his staff did very responsibly.

Today is a huge moment: we have ended private prisons in Nashville.
En route, we made sure that any future contracts would have improved transparency and monitoring and that #MetroCouncil would be empowered to review future private contracts.

nashville.gov/mc/ordinances/…
If you want to see how thoroughly @NashSheriff evaluated the transition process, they worked hard on a detailed report that assessed both cost and risk:

drive.google.com/file/d/1jP_Tue…
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2 years ago, Daniel Hambrick was shot and killed by police about 2 miles from my house.

I walked the streets with community members.

Reliving parts of that night is chilling but necessary.

Read this thread, make time to listen to the podcast, follow the work of @MNCONashville.
I’m fortunate to be part of a committed group of leaders actively working to #Liberate208.

Spend some time with @gideonsarmyutd to understand how this is about systems. It’s challenging to grapple with the idea that some of them are racist.

We’ve still got a lot of work to do.
If you want to get a sense of the scope of the work and explore ways to connect with it, check out the #Liberate208 report:

nashville.gov/Portals/0/Site…
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Much of my work on #Liberate37208 began in part last term, like investing deeply in @BVES_MNPS, among other projects.

Huge credit to CM Taylor for leading a committee through giving it more shape and to @whittlz for ensuring young voices were heard.

nashville.gov/Portals/0/Site…
At our last #MetroCouncil meeting, the CMs from the committee passed a resolution calling on @JohnCooper4Nash to complete a fines and fees study initiated almost a year ago.

Our criminal legal system too often criminalizes poverty itself.
For years, Metro collected so-called jailers’ fees. We literally charged pre-trial inmates—people who could not afford to post bond—$44/day to be incarcerated. But it didn’t go to the jailer; it came to the general fund.

We stopped doing that in 2018.

nashville.gov/Metro-Clerk/Le…
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As we get underway, I’m already glad that CM Taylor persuaded @phalcon7 to facilitate today’s community listening session.

She brought students and has suggested #Liberate208 as the hashtag for the day, so follow along (and participate!) even if you can’t attend.
Starting with most tables full. CM Taylor opening by referencing @BrookingsInst analysis on incarceration that had 37208 as the most incarcerating zip code in the country for people born there from 1980-1986.

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“I’m not a fan of civil conversation because civil conversation is often not real talk.” ~ @phalcon7

She elaborated on the difficulty of reconciliation without truth.

cc @davidplazas

#Liberate208
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