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Jul 28

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ANNOUNCEMENT! We just released two new tools for the fight for prison phone justice — a game-changing, real-time rate map and a national PSA featuring NBA coach and former player Caron Butler @realtuffjuice that reminds of the people behind the numbers. Let's #ConnectFamiles! 🧵

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@realtuffjuice The PSA follows Euriya, one of the 1 in 29 children in the US with an incarcerated parent, as his family navigates the financial hardship of staying connected. The burden is too much for him and his mom, so he misses out on doing homework with dad and often hearing "I love you."

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@realtuffjuice We're grateful to @realtuffjuice for lending his voice to this fight, to @NateParker & @NateParkerFdn for helping us tell this story through film, and to the dozens of directly impacted cast and crew who participated.

Watch and share the extended cut.

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Feb 8

@SecurusTech

Predatory prison telecom Aventiv (parent of @SecurusTech & @JPay_com) once offered prison college programs free access to its tablets but not anymore. Why? The ban on Pell grants for incarcerated students was just lifted, and they see $$$.

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motherjones.com/crime-justice/…

In 1994, Biden’s infamous crime bill, banned Pell grants for incarcerated students. Within a year, the number of incarcerated college students fell by an estimated 44%. By 1997, out of 772 prison college programs that operated in the early '90s, only eight were left.

@BPIBard

In recent years, the colleges that offered prison programs, such as @BPIBard @WashingtonUniv @UCF, did so on their own dime and often were fueled by volunteers.

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Feb 3

@BiancaTylek

Did you know that the 13th Amendment, celebrated for abolishing slavery, includes an exception for criminal punishment? Neither do 88% of Americans.

teenvogue.com/story/slavery-…

Worth Rises' @BiancaTylek explains in @TeenVogue. Help end slavery at endtheexception.com.

After the passage of the #13th, Southern and other states used ‘Black Codes’ to criminalize and re-enslave newly-freed Black folks — these were laws that prohibited Black people from owning land, moving freely, being unemployed, and more.
nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/b…

If you violated the Black Codes, you could be incarcerated and forced to labor through the brutal practice of “convict leasing,” in which governments leased recently freed, incarcerated Black people out to private businesses.

See what the South did there?

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Sep 30, 2021

@GTLCorporate

“I am writing to your company, Global Tel Link, but I seek to appeal to a human being. How you have treated me and my family...through your business practices has caused us great harm.” - Miguel, San Quentin

Read this powerful letter to @GTLCorporate & @AmerSecurities. THREAD

Miguel hasn’t seen his family for more than a year.

“Covid isolation has meant sporadic and limited phone calls with poor sound quality that are... interrupted every few minutes by needless recordings, without privacy... and on 12 phones for 700-800 individuals.”

“There seems to be a constant lack of feeling, care, compassion, or even common sense business practices within this traditional prison industrial complex model... With concern and deep pain, Miguel.”

Unfortunately, he’s not the only one with this experience…

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Feb 28, 2021

Imagine getting a hand drawn birthday card from your kid. Now, imagine that instead you got a photocopy of that birthday card -- or worse, just a small digital copy on a tablet -- AND that someone threw your kid's card in the trash in some corporate warehouse.

Angry? THREAD.

PA did it first: replaced direct mail in prisons with privatized mail photocopying. Now, this cruel practice is quickly spreading. It's already been rolled out in many local jails, and is being piloted in the federal prison system and in MA prisons.

The corp introducing mail photocopying to prisons and jails is Smart Communications and their product is MailGuard. They make $4M a year on the PA contract, where families have reported delays in mail delivery and low image quality, like this:

slate.com/technology/201…

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Feb 19, 2021

@ctbailfund

"I was in prison on my daughter’s 8th birthday... I had seen it happen over and over to the men around me: active and willing fathers who lost their babies because of the cost of a call." - Jewu

You minced no words with this one, Jewu @ctbailfund!
ctpost.com/opinion/articl…

"That’s right, amid a fight over prison calls, the state signed a second predatory contract with the same corporation to further exploit families with incarcerated loved ones. But what can we expect when the state has its hand in the cookie jar?"

"Parents inside need to comfort their kids, support them through remote learning and confirm negative COVID tests. But often they can’t — because they can’t afford to pay Securus, and JPay, and their private equity owner Platinum Equity, and the state."

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