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Media outlets make choices every day on how they cover people in the criminal justice system.

This story, by the numbers:
-95 paragraphs(!)
-0 uses of the term convict, felon, offender
-1 photo of the family at the beach
-1 subheader with "devoted mother"
nytimes.com/2023/05/07/bus… There are lots of Elizabeths-many are devoted moms.

Pick your closest analogy--a random Liz with two kids, convicted of fraud around drug charges...and ask yourself why the details of her life and what long incarceration means are any less meaningful?

I wanted to do a thread on the need for criminal justice for, why mass incarceration is wrong & doesn’t make us safer, & why efforts to distort & overturn DC’s Revised Criminal Code Act—the effort to modernize our antiquated criminal code—are wrong. So some facts all in 1 place: Mass incarceration is a modern system. Between 1970 and 2010, the number of Americans incarcerated exploded by 500%, bringing massive costs in dollars & lives. As leaders across the ideological spectrum have acknowledged and evidence has made clear—it has been an awful mistake…

NEW - Here is our statement and analysis of today’s news — it’s long, but we tried to explain what it means given the incredibly high stakes: “Multiple things can be true at the same time: the Biden Administration’s creation of new legal pathways that will protect vulnerable individuals is a critical and positive step; expanding Title 42 is entirely wrong; and we strongly oppose the proposed policy…