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May 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
This #MayDay, a reminder that maintaining employment is a common condition of parole release, meaning that mass incarceration has created a class of people who are pressured to say yes to jobs with bad wages, benefits & protections. /1
Formerly incarcerated people earn $.84 for every $1 the average worker earns, or ~$29k/yr. /2 Image
In a sample of 50,000 people released from federal prisons in 2010, 66% were jobless at any given point in time. People in the sample had an average of 3.4 jobs throughout the four-year study period, meaning that they are likely working... /3
...temporary jobs, jobs where workers aren’t protected from wrongful termination, or dangerous or low-wage jobs that are unsustainable.

Read more in our 2022 analysis:
prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/02/0…

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Apr 26
Big news this week on the campaign to end prison gerrymandering. Today, @RepDeborahRoss, @RepMarkPocan, @repclever & @RepEmiliaSykes introduced legislation that would direct the @uscensusbureau to finally count incarcerated people at their true homes.
Prison gerrymandering is a problem created because the Census counts incarcerated people in the wrong place: a prison cell rather than their true home. prisonersofthecensus.org/impact.html
Ultimately, the Bureau can make this change on its own, but this bill shows that if the agency fails to act, lawmakers are increasingly ready to force it to fix this problem. prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2023/04/2…
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Mar 17
Massachusetts, here is a brief update on the fight to make prison and jail phone calls free: 🧵

The governor has proposed to include free calls for prisons in her state budget. Bafflingly, people in jails are excluded in her proposal.
Jails have the highest phone rates of all correctional facilities in Massachusetts. Families can easily spend hundreds of dollars *every month* on phone calls with a single loved one. Private companies are taking home millions (est. $14 million/year from prisons and jails). Image
>50% of incarcerated people in MA are in local jails. They need help, too. And while Gov. Healey has said jails aren’t under the state government’s control, if the state house - which FUNDS jails - doesn’t control jails, who does?
bostonglobe.com/2023/03/10/opi…
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Nov 23, 2022
🧵We've pulled together some of the false claims about crime and incarceration you're most likely to hear at the Thanksgiving dinner table, and the data and facts to help you push back:
Claim #1: "Crime is up because of bail reform!"

Response:
Very few places have actually eliminated or reduced their dependence on money bail.

In those places that have reined in their money bail system, most saw decreases or negligible increases in crime after reforms...
For example, in 2017 New Jersey eliminated the use of cash bail. After that reform, the state's pretrial population decreased by 50%, and violent crime decreased by 16%.
prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/11/1…
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Nov 17, 2022
NEW: In the last 5 years, prisons in 13 states have replaced physical mail sent to incarcerated people with scans. There's no evidence that this policy - which has a chilling effect on the mail while benefiting private companies - does anything to make prisons safer. Image
Many county jails are implementing mail scanning, too. parents trying to stay in touch with their kids, journalists, lawyers, even nonprofits and educational organizations all report long delays and problems with their recipients trying to read scanned letters and photos.
So why do prisons switch to scanning mail? It's not, as prisons sometimes claim, because mail scanning will make prisons safer. (In fact, analyses in PA and MO show scanning is having little to no effect on overdoses and drug use, the type of issues it's purported to address.)
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Nov 3, 2022
When counties release "jail assessment" analyses (or commission companies to produce analyses) purporting to prove the need for a bigger jail, their reports often distort the facts. 🧵
The reports typically project that the # of people in jail will stay the same or grow, thus justifying the need for a bigger jail. But their projections often ignore criminal justice reforms that are likely to pass - or already have passed! - that will lower the jail population. excerpt from a jail assessmentexcerpt from a jail assessment
In Otsego County, MI, for example, a jail assessment claimed that "over 1100 outstanding warrants" in the county justified a bigger jail. But it failed to mention that many of the warrants were for offenses that, based on recent reforms, were no longer jailable or even criminal. graph from Otsego County Michigan jail assessment with Priso
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Nov 1, 2022
Money bail doesn't keep communities safe; it enriches big bail and insurance companies. And we found that in at least 28 states, including NY, California, Hawaii, and Texas, these companies have been avoiding paying $$ that they owe the criminal justice system. /1
We scoured decades of state audits and local news reports for our recent report "All Profit, No Risk: How the bail industry exploits the legal system":
prisonpolicy.org/reports/bail.h…
In San Francisco, officials estimate that bail bond agents successfully avoid paying “millions” of dollars owed to the court each year.

In Los Angeles County, $1.1 million in forfeited bonds went unpaid in 2016-17 alone.
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