Flashback to the Reformatory Tour... #ForgotToPost #Inkcarceration2021 #Shawshank #NoMorePrisons #HeavyMetal https://www.instagram.com/p/CW-P5hrLaju/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Part 4:⁣ ⁣ [ Content Notice: References to anti-Black and anti-Indigenous violence, namely slavery, specifically mass incarceration. Discussions of politics, including the presidential election. Mentions of food. ]⁣ ⁣ “I settle for fries and a burger when I have no energy to make pizza. I don't settle for presidents.” by Rosen T. Gordon (pronouns: zhe, zhir, and zhirs)⁣ ⁣ Voting for Biden will not better our material conditions. I do not think he will win to begin. Even if, hypothetically, he won, he would continue to enact and promote policy that continues the degradation of Black people and peoples Indigenous to the Americas. He was an author of the Three-Strikes Bill, also known as the 1994 Crime Bill, which doubled the incarceration rate, a big reason so many Black people and people Indigenous to the Americas are incarcerated today (Eisen and Chettiar 2016). No, I will not accept his authorship of the bill as a “mistake” (United States Presidential Debate on October 22, 2020). You don’t accidentally enslave millions of people. You cannot apologize for slavery.⁣ ⁣ [ Image Description: The Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh meme format is used. Pooh in a crop top has an indifferent facial expression to the statement, “Settle for Biden: Trite, White, with no bite.” Pooh in a tuxedo has an intrigued facial expression to the statement,“Settle for Fries and a Burger: Yummy in my tummy!” ]⁣ ⁣ Hashtags: ⁣ #NoMorePresidents #BlackLivesMatter #FreeThemAll #NoMoreJails #NoMorePrisons #AbolishPrisons #AbolishthePolice #BlueLivesDontMatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDz2HNAMBV/?igshid=vwstrjvgcdhl

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

#Repost @zedtuck (@get_repost) ・・・ do y'all know about the @vent_diagrams project? i made my first @vent_diagrams after thinking and teaching about the complexity of causes leading to the rise of the prison industrial complex in California #ruthwilsongilmore #foursurpluses #prisonabilition #abolitionnow #nomoreprisons #ventdiagram

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#Repost @wp4rj (@get_repost) ・・・ EXCERPT via @pbssocal /// For most of the 23 years Romarilyn Ralston spent in a California prison, she made 37 cents an hour, unable to afford crafty birthday cards for her two sons, let alone the financial support she desperately wanted to give them. • Ralston did clerical and recreational work at the California Institution for Women in Chino, while voluntarily training women who have recently made national headlines for being on the front lines of the state’s biggest wildfires. The state has deployed more than 15,000 people to combat fires ripping through more than 220,000 acres in recent weeks, including as many as 1,600 trained inmates who earn, at the high end, a base pay of close to $2 a day. • Describing dangerous, backbreaking labor — they use hoes and chainsaws to manipulate the landscape and redirect fires in their tracks — Ralston compared it to a slave-era practice. • “Prisoners are leased out and thrown down to public and private corporations for labor,” she said. “That’s part of the convict-leasing system from Reconstruction, unfortunately, and it’s shameful.” • The second clause of the #13th Amendment to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude made an exception for people convicted of crimes, allowing landowners to incriminate newly-freed slaves with arbitrary laws and rent them out for cheap labor. • Since then, prisons have relied on this labor — including cleaning, serving food, laundry, plumbing and construction — to run their facilities as well as to provide the state with other workers, including those who make license plates or pave roads. • Though firefighting, Ralston said, is particularly high-risk. “I’ve seen women come back with broken ankles and broken arms, burns or just suffering from exhaustion, you know, the psychological stress that people go through trying to just pass the requirements because if they don’t pass the requirements, they don’t get to camp,” she said. “It’s very stressful, not only on the body but also on the mind.” • GET INVOLVED @justicelanow @curbprisons @studentsnotsuspects @la_studentsdeserve #nomoreprisons #schoolsnotprisons #wildfire #lafire