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Oct 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
On my list of dream interviews for Decarceration Nation would be @charltonbrooker

There are a lot of episodes of #BlackMirror that are groundbreaking in the way that they reflect on society's commitment to punishment and I would love to discuss those episodes with him someday
Which episodes?

White Bear (my personal favorite)
White Christmas
Men Against Fire
Black Museum
probably Nosedive as well
maybe Hated in the Nation to talk about mass surveillance as well
Probably would not be time in this interview which will probably never happen, but, if it did, I might also want to discuss 15 Million Merits...mostly because I just love that episode
And if I were going to talk about mass surveillance and implications, probably should include "The Entire History of You" as well...maybe a few seconds of "Metalhead"

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Oct 20
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Okay, story time...

I have a friend named James...when he was a kid he committed a murder...he got out b/c the Supreme Court allowed people sentenced to Juvenile Life Without Parole to be re-sentenced

Now, in Tom Cotton's unforgiving world, James would have died in prison Image
Since James has come home, he helped open a warming center in his community during the polar vortex in 2019 (probably saving lives) and now he runs a food program that helps food insecure people in his community eat every day - here is more of his story

freep.com/story/news/loc…
I met James when I took a trip with him to DC...his first time - in his life - leaving the state of Michigan...he is one of the kindest and most purpose-driven people I know, he turned his life around and now makes a difference in his community EVERY SINGLE DAY
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Oct 19
Lying charlatans....crime rates are up MORE in GOP sates and cities...criminal justice reform MAKES COMMUNITIES SAFER...and cheap taglines make for IDIOTIC policy

Crime increased everywhere and more in TOUGH ON CRIME PLACES

If you want to have a real debate, do some research Image
FACTS

Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina lead the states with the highest murder rates....those are states without much criminal justice reform, with tough on crime prosecutors, fully funded police, and GOP LEADERSHIP

STOP THIS NONSENSE! Image
If you want to do cities....we can do that too. If you want to blame it all on Democrats, explain Bakersfield, Fort Worth, and Jacksonville (among others)...I know none of this matters to you...but you have no ethics and any decent person would be ashamed of themselves
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Oct 15
I am not sure why people are so impressed with themselves for these responses to the notion that prison food is bad:

"Prisoners get more food than many starving, poor, and homeless people"

This seems like a dunk to people? Seems to me like all of those are indictments
What if....and I am just talking here...but, what if, we thought it was bad that poor people didn't have food, kids didn't have food, unhoused people, and incarcerated people didn't have food..and TRIED TO FIX THAT

Also, are all of these people commenting doing anything to help?
I suspect the people saying these things don't give a damn about unhoused people, poor people, and other malnourished people...and are not invested in fixing those problems...because if they cared, they would care about everyone and not pit people against each other
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Oct 15
I see the most un-serious person in the Senate is at it again...People who have committed murder are released almost every day in the United States...sentence lengths are largely made up and long sentences are increasingly counterproductive

Tom Cotton is the worst!
It is easy to just scream "murderers" every day instead of seriously addressing the issues involved.

To Tom Cotton, incarcerated people are just grist for his political meal & public safety is something he loves to talk about..but what he is really doing is mining fear of crime
What Mr. Cotton is actually talking about is the @JohnFetterman feeling that Pennsylvania's one-size fits all "life sentences" for first and second-degree murder convictions policy lacks nuance
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Oct 14
More nuance missed in the Michigan governor's debate...the part where Dixon quoted the Sheriffs Association suggesting that incarceration hasn't decreased (people were just being hidden in jails) was TOTAL NONSENSE (and obvious self-dealing)
During the first few waves of COVID, jail numbers increased massively because prisons stopped taking new admissions...but that ended OVER A YEAR AGO and I have literally asked those questions of MDOC and seen the results....prisons are down and jails are largely back to normal
Also, a bit questionable on the crime stats....yes, crime was up year-over-year in Michigan, but there are a few things that they aren't telling you

1. Crime is declining significantly over the first quarter of 2022...the report they are referring to has a lag (recent FBI stats)
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Oct 13
This is such a ridiculous statement...stopping people in crisis from committing crimes is a good thing...that doesn't mean arrest or incarceration solves crime or that they are the most effective interventions in every circumstance...in fact they often MAKE THINGS WORSE
Classic STRAWPERSON argument, people do not say "catching criminals is not good" they say people are rarely inherently criminal, often are not best served by incarceration (instead of, for instance, diversion) and that incarceration often creates more crime than it solves
For instance, it is incredibly counterproductive to address a lot of crime (like misdemeanors) in this manner & also that spending massive law enforcement resources in the way we spend them TRADES OFF w. more effective interventions and means LOW CLEARANCE RATES 4 serious crimes
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