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2 Nov, 24 tweets, 15 min read
Do you know someone who has been incarcerated who has come back and done something great?

I know people who have raised money for amazing causes, run for office, started organizations that provide necessary services EVERY DAY

Share a story of hope and success
Way too often, all we here is stories of failure...

I know formerly incarcerated CEO's, visionaries, burgeoning real estate moguls, and employees

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My friend @TarraSimmons5 is running for election in #Washington, my friend @Richard_Bronson is starting his second business @CommissaryClub, @ShakaSenghor is a best selling author and entrepreneur

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My friend @moninwlansing runs one of the best reentry organizations in Michigan, and helps people return successfully every day. Gabe Blauer helped create "Catastrophic Creations"

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My co-worker @troyrienstra112 and my friend Allan Wachendorfer worked together to hold @NationOutside together and are working to GOTV in #Michigan - led by formerly incarcerated Michiganders

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My co-worker @RickCSpeck runs a successful painting business my friend Aaron Suganuma helps as a formerly incarcerated liaison and reentry specialist at the Washtenaw County Sheriffs office (imagine that)

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My friend @weldon_angelos is a successful music producer, @blshirelle8 just dropped her first album on @DieJimCrow ....obviously @MeekMill is setting the world on fire and giving back through @REFORM

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My friends @ChandraBozelko and @keribla are successful journalists with by-lines in publications all over the country...and nobody works harder to uncover problems in incarceration than @keribla

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My friend @AliceMarieFree wrote an incredible book, earned a presidential pardon, and works to help people come home my friend @MCharles615 works to help people come home

They were both guests of POTUS at the #SOTU

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My friend @KevinARing is large and in charge at @FAMMFoundation, @DSafavianEsq is the general counsel at @ACUFforJustice, @craigderoche is at @prisonfellowshp and starting a recovery organization

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I forgot to mention that Allan Wachendorfer works at @Vera and @troyrienstra112 is the Director of outreach at @safeandjustmi in addition to the other great work they do

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Obviously, @Piper has turned her story from tragedy to triumph and in the process inspired people all over the world to care deeply about incarcerated women...She also continues to fight for change every day

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My friend @CozineWelch runs a mentoring organization called @abwmentoring and inspires writers

Mary Heinen McPherson is a core member of the @umichPCAP family and inspires people inside every day

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So many of the people featured in the PBS documentary #CollegeBehindBars are doing great things, you see @DyjuanTatro on here pretty regularly

My friend @DavidLeegarlock shares his story and inspires people all over the country

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The great @dwaynebetts wrote the book of poetry "Felon" and wrote this amazing piece about the election last week

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Of course, as I mentioned the other day, one of my mentors, friends, and a trailblazer in this work @glennEmartin continues to be a leader in this work

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Can't leave out my brother @lewisconwayjr doing amazing work at @ACLU

Share a story of hope and success....do you know a formerly incarcerated person who is succeeding? Share!
And can't forget all the great people at @JustLeadersUSA

@MzDeHoskins always keeping it real and my good friend @BeySimpson who lights up every room he enters

They are doing great work helping formerly incarcerated people succeed

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Goodness, @KevinARing just reminded me that I forgot @shonhopwood who literally was one of the first people to support and encourage my own activism and has quietly helped so many people after working his way from prison to @GeorgetownLaw

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A few more @JeffSmithMO wrote a great book about his experiences.

My friends @MRFIVEINC and @KathyMorse0914 starred in "Rikers: An American Jail" and do amazing work to help folks every day

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Almost forgot my brother @JGKoufos who tirelessly works to make things better across the country for people behind bars and coming home....he also, for some crazy reason, remains the biggest supporter in the world of his home state (Jersey)

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There are millions of formerly incarcerated people in this country, if you know one who has succeeded share the story

Daniel Jones is the project coordinator at the Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration

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Of course there is also all the great attention and work the members of the #ExoneratedFive have done to raise the profile of this movement...also thanks to @ava

Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam (not sure who is on Twitter)
I can't believe I forgot our sister @amandaknox who has started a pretty amazing network of podcasts

She is doing interesting and challenging work

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Joshua B. Hoe Profile picture
31 Oct
If you care about public safety...

If people cannot return from incarceration and find housing and employment....If they cannot connect with their community and families....

What exactly do you expect they will do?

The ability to return connected is a public safety imperative
Why do we consider to expect people to embrace a society that shuns them, that often relegates them to homelessness and unemployment, that often doesn't allow them a voice in their own government, and that makes connection nearly impossible

NIMBY is counterproductive
In Oklahoma right now, law enforcement is running a scare tactics campaign to scare voters into refusing SQ 805

The question is NOT if there will be recidivism, there is recidivism now...the question SHOULD BE will there be more recidivism BEFORE or AFTER reform is passed.
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26 Oct
Anyone who is still listening to Cheeto Mussolini on "testing" needs to try again. Testing reveals actual cases, it does not create cases.

Also, contact tracing + testing is what controls and reduces cases, not testing alone.
Also, Trump largely stopped investing in testing months ago...he has never insisted on any kind of national testing repository or in record-keeping of any kind.

A few days ago he implied COVID was an election hoax and would end on Nov. 4th
This guy wears 🤡👞on COVID and we are all paying the price

If you are tired of masks and quarantines blame Trump...people warned him for MONTHS this would happen in the Fall and he went all-in on herd immunity
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24 Oct
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I promised personal news today...a little over ten years ago I was sentenced to prison and one of the last things I did was buy this shower curtain, in hopes of having my own place again someday
For the 7 years since I have returned, I lived in a boarding house...with shared facilities and a kitchen...in other words I have not had my OWN bathroom in OVER ten years...until today! This was my old place.
Yesterday, I became a first-time home owner, today I moved into my new place, and I now am a property owner for the first time in my life...one of the very first things I did was THIS...it took a decade, but now it is mine
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15 Oct
Picking and choosing who gets to vote is anti-Democratic

Even the statement, "I don't think our Democracy is made better by letting _____ vote" is internally contradictory and self-defeating.

Democracy is not, and should not be, about elites choosing preferred voters Ted Cruz.
Side note: Oddly enough, in the state Mr. Cruz represents, people who did time for murder can vote...and yet, Mr. Cruz was elected. Is Texas' not an acceptable Democratic state?

Political grandstanding by putting real people's vote on the line is UGLY
He was also FLAT wrong...there is actual research that shows that VOTING by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people actually does make our communities safer and our democracy stronger
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Joshua B. Hoe Profile picture
14 Oct
"I am not sure our democracy is made better by allowing murderers to vote" - Ted Cruz

As usual, Ted Cruz is wrong on policy, and spectacularly wrong about what matters to a functional democracy
He even inferred that the 14th amendment suggested for disenfranchisement, which it does not (it only allows it, if a state decides to do so).

Just a shameful exercise in political theater with real people's votes on the line
1. No taxation without representation (you know the foundation of the Tea Party movement...I believe you have heard of it Mr. Cruz?)

2. Every member of that Tea Party broke the law and could have been excluded from voting under the Cruz reasoning
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14 Oct
Exactly...originalism is just political cover giving personal and religious views the appearance of objectivity...it is an attempt to suggest that the judge is like the narrator in a movie...but narrators are always unreliable
Everyone wants to believe that they make decisions objectively. Everyone wants to believe they arrive at conclusions fairly...but we all interpret what we read and arrive at what we write using OUR eyes and everything that makes us who we are...we are, by nature self-interested
If you and I read the same text, we will interpret at least parts of it differently...most likely, that is because how we read things is determined by everything that came together over a lifetime to make us who we are....Reading is ALWAYS a co-productive process
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