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Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Three reports from three organizations making it clear that reducing excessive prison sentences for violent crimes is critical to ending mass incarceration and its racial disparities: 🧵
1. @CouncilonCJ: "By 2019, nearly two-thirds of Black adults in state prisons were held for violent offenses."
counciloncj.foleon.com/reports/racial…
2. @theNASEM: Reforms like #SecondLook would reduce racial disparities by reducing long sentences.
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26705/…
3. @SentencingProj: "While Black Americans are vastly over- represented in the prison population, this disparity widens among those serving lengthy sentences." sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/h…

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May 31, 2018
Here's a summary of some research that took me 8 years(!) to complete. It's now a journal article titled "Cell Phones and 'Excessive Contact': The Contradictory Imperatives Facing California’s Parole-Eligible Lifers," and began as a dissertation chapter. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Punchline: Parole and prison policies in CA create an incentive for parole-eligible lifers to break prison rules by using cell phones and engaging in physical contact with visitors that's deemed "excessive." When detected, these behaviors contribute to parole denials.
To learn this, I spent time with people advocating for loved ones sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. I found that they helped lifers qualify for parole by keeping up their spirits, and much more. Here’s Terrance on his relationship w/ his wife and her kids.
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