#droplwop

Every other Country has Sentencing Guidelines. The United Snakes's Mass Incarceration is due to vengeance overpowering logic. The understanding of underlying issues result in downfalls and the unrealistically high cost to taxpayers, in order to house inmates, who actually should be in Long-Term Residential Treatment Facilities rather than Prisons. This past year the people helped work against two bills that would roll back Youth Offender Parole and start giving #LWOP sentences again to 16 & 17yr-olds. (The bills would affect laws enacted by SB 9 (2012); SB 394 (2018); SB 261 (2016); and AB 1308 (2018).) These bills, AB 665 (Gallagher) and AB 1641 (Kiley), were ultimately denied hearings in the Assembly Public Safety Committee, so they stalled for the year. Today they're having a Public Safety hearing on these bills and a "Gratitude Tour" thanking the legislators who helped fight for the reform. Our very own co-founder of "Operation Free Bixx - Free Wajuba Alliance", Wajuba McDuffy/OYG Bixx1, will be attending the hearing as an Anti-Recidivism Coalition affiliate and sharing his experience as a former JLWOPer/Northern CA Innocence Project client and how some of those bills helped him before many of the community and other legislators at the State Capitol, here in Sacramento. Here's the link to tune into the hearing: Look for: Public Safety JONES-SAWYER, Chair 9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 Committees: Public Safety https://www.assembly.ca.gov/todaysevents #fromJLWOP2EXONERATION #wrongfullyconvictedlivesMATTER #XONR8TIONNOW #dropLWOP 🚮 #ofbfwa✊🏿❤️🖤💚✊🏿 (at Anti-Recidivism Coalition) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7TxKzah13Acg-2ej0kdTydfaQAM_mesg0LjSA0/?igshid=zh1i4fb7ot1i

Death and Bowling Community: please sign and share widely goo.gl/Qbx9gu #nomoreprisons #Repost @micahbazant ・・・ Friends - we have a big opportunity to get people free! Please sign + share! goo.gl/Qbx9gu[link in bio]! . . . . . Gov. Jerry Brown is nearing the end of his term & he's been granting an unprecedented number of pardons. @ca_coalition is working to get ppl out—especially trans folks & domestic violence survivors! We've heard from the Gov's office that numbers on petitions really do influence their decisions. . . Adrian Uribe is a 42yo trans man of color who's endured 20+ yrs of anti-trans discrimination & harassment in prison. At the age of 23, he was sentenced to Life Without Parole, as part of a coerced plea deal made while he was forcibly medicated in jail. Join us in asking Governor Jerry Brown to commute Adrian Uribe’s sentence from Life Without Parole to a parole-eligible sentence. . . Trans POC face widespread injustice including police profiling & harassment, attacks on credibility, and disproportionate imprisonment. While incarcerated, trans people endure social isolation, medical neglect and mistreatment, and transphobic discrimination, harassment, and violence. . . As a trans man serving his time at the California Institution for Women, Adrian has been denied access to clothing & products consistent with his gender, and has been denied gender-affirming chest surgery in violation of state policy. He has experienced overt discrimination by prison authorities, including regular demeaning insults. He has been subjected to discriminatory confinement in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) with stays lasting for months. Adrian lives with the threat of being confined to the SHU if he expresses frustration about his mistreatment. . . #FreeAdrian #DropLWOP #FreeThemAll . . [Image description: pencil & watercolor sketch of a transgender man of color against a green background. He is bald with glasses and a goatee. On his white t-shirt are the words "Free Adrian".] https://www.instagram.com/p/BoCVmuWho4y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15onveuwobfli

#differentcause_samepassion Been protesting, lobbying & rallying for almost 5mos. str8 for various causes/bills. It was so nice seeing the support for LWOPers yesterday. My only disappointment was that I'd wish there had been more Black/Brown/Red folks out there being that we're the ones that get sentenced to LWOP almost 3x's more than others. Other than that I really enjoyed seeing alot of u outside of a visiting/carpool setting. I even surprisingly ran into a comadre, Candace, that I usually reg. visit and been scheduled with for FVs at the same time. All the guest speakers were phenomenal, spoke candidly and from the heart! Asante sana/thank u very much to the supporters that traveled from allover Cali to meet with Capitol officials and lobbied their @$$es off for ALL of our LWOP loved ones!!!! Last but not least, I send nothing but ☮️, 💓 and blessings out to the Sistren, Ms. Amber-Rose Howard, who took time to speak with me/give me props, hear my story and the good news I recently received. P.s. Shout-out to Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners for coordinating a wonderful & SORELY NEEDED event. #dropLWOP #CURB #CCWP #CAstatecapitol #lobbylikenobodiesbusiness #APTTP✊🏿 #endmassincarceration #NOCHILDISBORNBAD #banJLWOP #OPERATIONFREEBIXX #freewajubaalliance #XONR8TIONNOW #wrongfulconvictionsstealslives #myLilHoopteeBoomugginnholdinupthe5forareason #itwillbegreaterlater😉😊 *in my GrandDaddy Yerger's voice* (at California State Capitol)