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#Defundthepolice. Its a phrase that is controversial. Lets examine it's merits. 1st lets look at a scenario that I'm going to pull out of thin air:
A young man from the lower socioeconomic class graduates from high school.
A young man from the lower socioeconomic class graduates from high school.
He doesn't have money for college or trade school, so he gets a low skilled job paying minimum wage. That minimum wage isn't enough to live on, so he gets another low wage job (#fightfor15). Living on the bottom rung of the "hard knock life" like this is hard on a person.
How many people can make it working 80 plus hours a week for peanuts? So, eventually he hits some more tough times, as is life, he gets fired from one of his jobs (right to work), or he is arrested for Marijuana use (#legalize_it),
1. I received this from a person incarcerated in HMP Erlestoke. This is one of many accounts of an escalating situation. I need help sharing these accounts and for people to take action. @WarrCriminology @OwenJones84 @psn_ldn @novaramedia @netpol @zoeconway1 @AmnestyUK
2. ‘They’ve got prison officers going into cells spinning (searching), going into people’s self distancing space, touching all their sides and surfaces with the same gloves, or bare hands after they’ve just spun the first man’s cell on the same wing, or previous wings.’
3. ‘So that person’s gloves are contaminating from cell to cells, from wing to wing, and on top of that, in the hope of what? A phone? So you’re going to risk someone’s health/life for a phone?’
