The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource:: 🧵

We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “No abolitionist who is a true abolitionist wants to save money. What we want is for the money to be spent, to enhance, and support human life so that it can flourish in a way that doesn’t destroy the planet. We’re not about cost-savings.“ Saving lives, not saving money.

Join Survived and Punished virtually on April 28th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm ET to celebrate our collective accomplishments and to mourn our losses over the past 10 years. Register here: survivedpunished10years.eventbrite.com

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

U.S. incarceration fact that I wish more progressive-types knew:

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

The number of people detained by ICE rose by an astonishing 58% (25,200) between 2025 and 2026; expanded immigration detention accounts for virtually all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

The Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org breaks down the American carceral state www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

If you want to begin to grasp the depth and reach of carceral reality in the US – including the growth of immigrant detention - you need to be following (and hopefully donating to) @prisonpolicy.org. Here's the latest mass incarceraton overview in 2026. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

➡️ Local city, county, and regional jail authorities are locking up fewer people — but jails now hold about 9,500 more people on behalf of federal authorities, especially the U.S. Marshals Service and ICE.

➡️ Expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. Since last year, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day has grown by nearly 60%.

🚨NEW: Last year, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased again. The driving factor? President Trump’s deportation agenda. Our annual report, The Whole Pie, gives the big picture of mass incarceration. Here are some key takeaways 🧵

The Navajo Nation commission's report detailed harsh discipline, language barriers, discriminatory hiring practices and more. “It’s our kids, our students, who are suffering the consequences of entrenched racism,” the commission chair said. With @nmindepth.bsky.social

My first piece for @globalvoices.org -- a part of my We Are Noor feminist journalism fellowship -- on the Brazilian far right and how they weaponize legal abortion: globalvoices.org/2026/03/07/h...

no amount of extra disposable income can bridge the gap left from gutted or simply non-existent public services. these tax breaks are individual "solutions" (that don't work) to collective problems

The remains and items are held in the university's Anthropology Department. https://www.mainepublic.org/arts-and-culture/2026-03-09/umaine-identifies-human-remains-and-hundreds-of-artifacts-for-repatriation-to-wabanaki-tribes

DHS purchased an 825,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Hagerstown for $102.4M that could hold 1,500 ICE detainees. By owning the site outright, the federal gov may bypass Maryland’s Dignity Not Detention Act, which limits local agreements for immigrant detention. www.wypr.org/wypr-news/20...

Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails I've covered deaths in immigration prisons for years, but I've never seen so many people die of what appears to be preventable conditions in such a brief period of time. This will come back to haunt them. It must.

"In eight incidents since 2019 where cops wound up either shooting or tasing the subject of a 911 mental health call, the officers involved were trained in crisis intervention, a review of NYPD records found. That included six encounters where the subject was killed." www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/09/c...

Congratulations to Kwaneta!

She has also done nothing to fix the failed public defenders system. People have gone months without an attorney appointed, one of basic our rights we charged.

Mills - a former prosecutor - vetoed a bill to close a notorious child prison in Maine and opposes the reinstatement of adult parole in the state

This is one of those “senate norms” that exists for no reason. It’s the same reason Rubio was unanimously voted in. It exists for no reason other than class solidarity among the powerful.

The Trump administration absolutely chose to nominate a senator because they knew senate Democrats would never have the spine to reject a colleague, no matter how unqualified

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

News: In 2019, the New Orleans City Council capped the population of the city's jail system at 1,250 people. A new data analysis from @veritenews.org finds that excluding the height of the COVID-19 pandemic the jail has largely exceeded that cap—especially in 2025. veritenews.org/2026/03/04/n...

from ICE to Iran, people in the US are far more concerned with doing the bad thing the "right way" than they are not doing the bad thing... crazy how much ppl have been primed to respond to harm with professionalization rather than.. ceasing inflicting the harm

As we reported in @boltsmag.org last month, Massachusetts is the *only* state with a Democratic governor + legislature that maintains a state-level 287(g) agreement with ICE. As part of this agreement, Massachusetts often funnels people exiting prison into deportation. boltsmag.org/massachusett...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread:

Massachusetts has the lowest incarceration rate in the U.S. and it STILL incarcerates people at a higher rate than Iran www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024....

”ICE is not acting like law enforcement,” foreign policy edition

not to mention, we almost never talk about the trade-offs in terms of harms accepted for meager "improvements" in crime statistics. the harms of erecting barriers to using mass transit are far more wide and deep than the benefits of "reducing the crime" of riding w/o paying

one of the recommendations is for prison officials to use AI to draft incident reports -- i suppose the real innovation here is that COs lie, but AI hallucinates www.govtech.com/voices/how-a...

Third Way: more people want to Abolish ICE and halt all immigration enforcement than identify as Democrats. Clearly it's the wrong position.

34% think shit is so bad we should not only abolish ICE but we should halt all immigration enforcement.... 👀👀👀👀

At least 33 agencies said they are violating the new laws Virginia created to regulate Flock cameras (or ALPRs) last year. Several reported still sharing Flock feeds out-of-state. Lawmakers made violations of the rules a misdemeanor. richmond.com/news/state-r... #RVA #VALeg

"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/bf99...

Mainers detained by ICE are coming home by the dozens

two senior ice officials joke about awarding contracts for nine privately run immigration jails ahead of schedule in an email exchange from march 2025. “you’re such an overachiever,” writes susan dunbar. “I'm a people pleaser...it's a curse,” replies albert dainton, ice’s head of contracting.

possibly the one woman in DC with a brain operating at full capacity?

The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.

Every time I see a news article about the DOJ violating dozens of court orders before getting a “final” stern warning from the judge, I think about the thousands of people each year who face immediate arrest warrants and detention for missing or being late to a court date

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

I first wrote about ICE's use of ruses and misrepresentations — which are explicitly recommended in their training manuals — almost eight years ago. This sounds like a particularly bold implementation but this has been part of their toolkit for a long time

In today’s episode, why it is so critical for the left to work against involuntary commitment and the criminalization of madness and disability, and how to understand the politics of “carceral sanism.” soundcloud.com/deathpanel/r...

New: the government just made it harder to see what spy tech it buys. This includes ICE, the FBI, essentially any agency. Why? Because they decided to retire the perfectly good system for searching contracts and replaced it with one that fucking sucks www.404media.co/the-governme...

so long as people are incarcerated, their medical care *should not* be subordinate to punishment bureaucracy. this is something we take for granted in the US. medical care should be entirely independent and supersede the "safe/secure/routine operations" of carceral facilities

Audit all you want, but the reason the budget is upside down and Austin needed a tax increase that voters denied them was the police contract we cdn't afford givng cops 28% raises. Since council is too cowardly to roll that back, and that's cause of the problem, none of this will matter.