Violence breeds fear. Violent systems fracture communities. What did #Minneapolis do? Created survival infrastructure. "The most subversive thing we can do is refuse to disappear." Excellent coverage from @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/ant...

Solitary confinement is systemic violence. A 60-day hunger strike by incarcerated people to demand an end to it? Unflinching courage & resilience. Incredible work from @themarshallproject.org—a story about hope & struggle. Survival. A moment that ignited reform in #California & across the country.

Excellent, necessary episode of an excellent, necessary #podcast. "Yeah, I definitely resonate with the heaviness. There’s this public escalation of the nervous system, but also there is so much like, 'Okay, what is the strategy? How do we move?'" #movements #organizing #minneapolis #justice

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Emily King from @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social speaking TRUTH to #Virginia legislators about why using fees to fund victims services is wildly ineffective & harmful—to those who've been harmed & those who've done harm. They chose to advance the bill. Okay. Cool. We choose to fight back. #EndJusticeFees

I'll never forget talking with a CO who told me about how he'd been ordered to create fake transfer documents to make bodies 'disappear'. Bodies of people who'd died. Whose deaths wouldn't be reported to their family for months. If ever. This story is about Cuyahoga County. This crisis is pandemic.

Federal budget cuts. Fiscal uncertainty. Chaos, even. States are struggling to raise revenue. I get it. But relying on #fines & #fees to help cover the gaps would be a catastrophic decision. #mustread from @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social and @centeronbudget.bsky.social. thehill.com/opinion/fina...

🚨breaking news🚨 from @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social. #Mississippi's HB 289 - attempted rollback of groundbreaking #FreeToDrive law: dead. #Arizona's HB 2265 - potentially historic #EndJusticeFees legislation - passed unanimously out of committee. Years of work. Big wins. Onwards.

Trying to exist—and succeed—on #parole (or #probation) is like trying to walk through a minefield. Blindfolded. With people chasing you. With guns. Oh—you have to guide your family to walk with you. 🙏🏽 to @prismreports.org for elevating Derek Trumbo, and many others. prismreports.org/2026/02/04/p...

Come for deep, honest legal analysis of #protest & civil disobedience. Stay for the gut-punch truth: the U.S. has a bad habit of contorting or maliciously extending laws to silence, punish, & erase the people who refuse to settle for injustice. @lawfaremedia.org⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The feel of paper. Holding in your hand something a loved one touched. Wrote on. Poured their heart into. Just part of what incarcerated people lose with digitized mail. There are ways to ensure safety. Dehumanizing mail shouldn't be one of them. @prismreports.org⬇️ prismreports.org/2026/02/02/d...

Time and again, decisions to criminalize behavior or prosecute criminalized behavior aren't about behavior. They're about weaponizing punishment to selectively target, marginalize, and oppress people. Voices. Ideas. It's not justice. It's just vindictive. @boltsmag.org⬇️ boltsmag.org/stanford-san...

According to the @brennancenter.org, nearly 22 *million* people—eligible voters—don't have ready access to necessary documents to obtain an ID. Not to mention the costs, in time and money, required to get an ID. #VoterID isn't about election integrity. It's about systemic marginalization. #vote

We've seen countless videos of #ICE violence in #Minneapolis. Footage of people being murdered. Lack of recording devices isn't the problem. But now, everyone accosted by ICE will also be surveilled. So...what does this solve? #bodycameras #abolishICE www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/02/h...

Othering is the infrastructure of oppression. It's calling incarcerated people "convicts" to make you fear them. Hate them. It's "Somalians" here. It's not about Somalia. It's about people who don't look or sound like you. The 'you' knows exactly what's being said. Beyond vile. Beyond dangerous.

#Monday for the National #Advocacy Team at @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social is prepping: #EndJusticeFees testimony in #Arizona; kickass opposition statement to prevent #FreeToDrive rollbacks in #Mississippi; powerful speech to #NewYork legislators to support #EndPredatoryFeesAct. So proud of this team.

Summer, '73. #Attica forcing a reckoning. Tensions around incarceration and violence simmering. And the guards at Walpole State #Prison go on strike. What happened next? Incarcerated people ran the prison themselves. Peacefully. For weeks. #mustread #mondayreading www.gq.com/story/walpol...

#NYTimes: let's try again on the headline. "Mamdani appoints...formerly incarcerated person..." But I won't let dehumanization detract from pride I feel for Stanley, for #NYC, & for the movement dedicated to centering lived experience in #justice reform. #historic www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/n...

“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.” - Anne Lamott

I was a prosecutor. If the power I held came w/ demands for sycophantic loyalty...? The harm I did, while trying my best to do good, would be nothing compared to harm I could've done. Perverted ethics. Toxic norms. This bullshit is why it's never been more important to constrain the justice system.

Financial #restitution doesn't help victims if it never arrives. And it makes things worse when it exacerbates #poverty and #debt. Is there an alternative? Lula Hagos explores #restorativejustice as a compensation alternative. One that merits serious consideration. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#CLOSErikers opponents said the plan goes too far or not far enough. The former? Different values. Easy. The latter? One question lingers: what's the timely alternative? The campaign confronted brutal truths. The plan was never gonna feel easy. Wasn't meant to. It was—is—meant to end Rikers forever.

If Epstein were Black and got caught selling an ounce of weed in a major city in the 90s/00s, a law enforcement agency would've released all the claims and all the names and all the intel on all the people in his orbit, guilty or not. And it'd be accessible & widely disseminated info. #EpsteinFiles

#Jails & #prisons exacerbate struggle. #Poverty, #mentalhealth, isolation... Name the issue. Incarceration makes it worse. The same is true for #climate emergencies. Whatever we feel on the outside is worse behind the walls. From @themarshallproject.org. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/30/e...

#Incremental #reform is sometimes necessary. I get it. I've pushed for it. But reform w/o values—reform that's not rooted in a long-term vision of what's possible and a plan to get there—isn't reform. It's status quo maintenance. And it holds us back. #mustread www.prisonpolicy.org/trainings/ca...

Constitutional rights locked behind a paywall. Can't afford a lawyer? Pay up. Want a trial by jury? Pay up. Want to appeal your conviction? Pay up. #Arizona can end this. #HB2265 will eliminate these fees and end the paywall to #justice. www.youtube.com/live/eDuzuHl... #EndJusticeFees

The criminal legal system prioritizes revenue over #justice. Want to challenge that? Change it? Help build the narrative about solutions and the people leading this fight? @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social is looking for a new #DigitalMedia manager. #hiring finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/2026/01/26/w...

Systemic violence. Dehumanize people who are harmed, thrust them into hell. Desensitize the harmers, absolve them of responsibility. Distinct, cyclical outcomes: destruction and corrosion. But let's be clear—zero respect for anyone in #ICE. Perpetuation of the system is a fucking choice. #abolishice

In #Massachusetts, you can get your license suspended due to debt. This isn't about #roadsafety. This is trapping and harming people who are struggling. #NewPoll: 78% of MA voters agree: let's end this shameful practice and pass the #RoadToOpportunityAct. #FreeToDrive www.nclc.org/massachusett...

Devastating #mustread from @themarshallproject.org. For the well-connected? A reprieve from accountability. For the rest of us? Catastrophic, unjustified erasure of funding for the programs & people actually trying to build toward #communitysafety. #DOJ www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/24/i...

Important fyi from people I trust: local law enforcement agencies across the country are doing videos and other outreach to explain how to identify them correctly because #ICE is dressing up like and impersonating local, trusted police. Let your folks know. #spreadtheword #abolishice

They call incarcerated people "inmates", "felons". They call protestors & helpers "violent rioters". They call their own—especially those doing the most harm—"heroes", "patriots". They weaponize language. To justify the unjustifiable: their thirst for oppression, hunger for fear. F that. #AlexPretti

We all want to build communities where #publicsafety is the defining feature. So, why do we still allow for law enforcement as wealth extraction? Or the entrenched perversion of revenue over #justice? And what are the solutions we should be pushing toward? Let's talk about it. tinyurl.com/bdsbef7e

Lots of talk about open letters. The power of words. The damage words do when they're used carelessly. Feels like a good time to re-up this letter from Eddie Ellis on the power of words & the importance of humanizing language in #justicereform. #GreenlandLetter ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Come work with me! #hiring #nonprofit #justicereform

February 4. #Albany. Many voices, one message. It's time for #NewYork to join the movement to #EndJusticeFees - to work toward economic and racial #justice - and pass the #EndPredatoryFeesAct. Come make your voice heard. Our time is now. Let's go! secure.everyaction.com/2FrIt20JpE6c...

The #CivilWar wasn't about states' rights just like #ICE using authoritarian tactics isn't about immigration. Different century, same playbook - terrify, terrorize, seek submission from people who refused to be "other'ed" into obscurity. Wanna debate policy? Cool. Wanna support this? Not as much.

#BlackWomen have had to fight systemic erasure for decades. Thinking about Black women #leaders who built the path I walk on - Susan Burton, Mariame Kaba, Vivian Nixon, LaTonya Myers, Marilynn Winn... They taught us not to wait for a seat at the table. Build your own. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

Policymakers telling people to believe in themselves while overseeing systems that refuse to believe in them... That's not just empty rhetoric. That's turning cruelty into culture. That's choosing harm over hope. #EndManMins #incarceration #parole #cjreform www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/16/l...

#Massachusetts has the chance to make history by passing the Road to Opportunity Act - a law to end the ineffective, inhumane practice of debt-based license suspensions - and joining the 26 states that have taken that step toward economic and racial justice. #FreeToDrive www.nclc.org/statement-of...

A new, #mustread piece from our allies at @centeronbudget.bsky.social Data, lived experience, and research make clear: States should continue working toward fine reform and fee elimination DESPITE - and, arguably, *because of* - chaotic #fiscal conditions. #cjreform www.cbpp.org/research/sta...

#SouthDakota recidivism rate: 50%. BUT, 37% of reincarceration due to technical parole violations. Good programming is good, but it's not the solution. You can't ask people to play better when the game's rigged. Real solution: eliminate fees & debt, reform parole. www.argusleader.com/story/news/2...

Compounding physical isolation and removal by adding emotional isolation and separation. This isn't the way to solve systemic problems, and it only adds harm - often unseen, long-lasting harm - to people who, I'm guessing, are the intended beneficiaries of this policy. truthout.org/articles/in-...

Anyone fighting for #justice, #equity, and #economic fairness has to address the challenges of municipal courts. Honored to have been a part of this webinar series to discuss the role of these courts on #finesandfees. Gratitude to @anatapoff.bsky.social for your work bringing this issue to light. 🙏🏽

Good read for anyone who wants to better understand the egregious harm and injustice of #criminallegal fees and financial exploitation. "Clients have told me, 'I pay my fees before I pay rent because I don't want to go back to jail. I pay my fees before I buy food,'" www.law360.com/articles/239...

Today is the day. The floating annex to #Rikers - #thebarge - is getting towed to a scrap yard. This day, and all that led to it, is what happens when directly impacted advocates lead the fight. One step closer to fully realizing the dream of ending Rikers, forever. hellgatenyc.com/scrapping-fl...

Few people have a greater degree of influence or more direct control over your local #criminaljustice system than your elected #DistrictAttorney. These #elections define so much about who we are as a country. Thank you, @boltsmag.org for pulling this info together. boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...

This year, #HB1460 - the broadest Republican-led fee elimination bill in history - became law in #Oklahoma. Yesterday, Governor #KevinStitt held a ceremonial bill signing. This is about more than changing laws. This is about changing lives. #justice #cjr finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/2025/08/26/h...

Calls from incarceration are about so much more than communication. They are connection. They are access to necessary services. They are an essential tool in enduring the unparalleled challenge that is incarceration. And in #NewYork state, they're now free. #cjreform www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

🚨NEW REPORT from @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social🚨 Imposing Instability — put together by FFJC's incredible #Policy & #Research team — shows just how much economic harm states inflict on communities, how little they collect, and the devastating consequences. finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/articles/imp...