"Amid the global rise in women’s incarceration, which has outpaced that of men, INFIW members opted to consolidate their power to challenge and resist the carceral juggernaut." via @truthout.org

A must-read from a cowriter/illustrator of The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration (@pmpress.bsky.social) & listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2025. via the always great Inquest

New article 🚨‼️ Forthcoming in the Clinical Law Review papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Thanks to the clients, students, and colleagues who have shaped my pedagogy, especially comrades at @abolitionistlawcenter.org and @abolitionschool.bsky.social

“We don’t do ourselves a favor by getting panicked in advance, but we also need to be ready," said Pastor Jay Bergen, a leader of No ICE Philly. www.inquirer.com/news/donald-... via @inquirer.com

Our coalition put Microsoft on notice on 12/2. “Israel’s genocide would be impossible without private Big Tech firms equipping the Israeli military with everything from cloud storage to surveillance technology.” – Bassel El-Rewini, ALC Human Rights Fellow www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251211-mic...

Lawrence Hamm of the NJ-based POP stressed the demand that the PA Dept. of Corrections give ALC client Mumia Abu-Jamal & all prisoners needed medical treatment—DOC's refusal being “a form of torture” that can result in “death by medical neglect.” www.workers.org/2025/12/89501/

"Partnering with global advocates and allies to stand with us is critical to beating back the forces attempting to return us to a new version of American Apartheid." Will you stand with us? thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commen... via @thephilacitizen.bsky.social

Tune in now to @democracynow.org to catch Prison Radio's Noel Hanrahan on the #March4Mumia - coming up in the second segment of the show

“Tragically, nothing is unique about this. It’s exactly the same problems that keep arising since 1995, including the lack of supervision and oversight of police officers on the street.” www.inquirer.com/crime/drug-c...

Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops? .. According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.

Xinachtli (Alvaro Hernández), a 73 year-old Chicano revolutionary organizer who has survived 23 years of solitary confinement under the Texas carceral system, is being killed by Texas prisons. MORE pressure is needed to get him urgent medical care 1. JOIN the phone blast: bit.ly/xphoneblast

Microsoft continues providing substantial services to Israeli military units. Internal staff's No Azure for Apartheid efforts to halt this have been suppressed, resulting in firings as recently as August. madhyamamonline.com/middle-east/...

Today, ALC & @glanlaw.bsky.social @avaaz.org @somoamsterdam.bsky.social @ccrjustice.org @eko.org notified Microsoft & its leadership of its potential legal liability for aiding & abetting atrocity crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza. abolitionistlawcenter.org/2025/12/02/m...

CAIR, CAIR-Georgia Extend Condolences After Imam Jamil Al-Amin (fka H. Rap Brown) Passes Away in Prison for Crime He Did Not Commit url:https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-cair-georgia-extend-condolences-after-imam-jamil-al-amin-passes-away-in-prison-for-crime-he-did-not-commit/

1,000+ people in Allegheny County have started receiving PennDOT license suspension notices for years-old court cases. IT IS NOT A HOAX. You have 30 days to appeal. Come to info sessions: - Sat. 11/22 at Judge Wheatley's in Dormont - Tues. 11/24 5-7pm at Community Forge in Wilkinsburg

We have filed our 3rd excessive force lawsuit against Allegheny County Jail. Read more at bit.l/ALC-Palmer-filing

Part 1: Philly voters won the creation of a Prison Oversight Board Part 2: it's time to make sure the board is set up to ensure full transparency & accountability. Join us to learn more tomorrow night! Bit.ly/POBA25

So excited to be presenting & discussing this film tonight in Pittsburgh with @pghdsa.org @bukitbailfund.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

Where each of Trump's National Guard deployments and related court battles stand via @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

A shutdown deal has been announced as Trump continues to fight a court order to release full SNAP benefits. Meanwhile, here's where to find & give help to address hunger in PA.

🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN! The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.

2026 election lineup just dropped! 🤯 Voting is how we protect Pennsylvania’s democracy. Get ready to do your part next year at vote.pa/register.

#ActionAlert Show up tomorrow and tell Allegheny County Council: not on our watch. Do not overturn the ban on shackling. Shackling is an inhumane, unnecessary practice that voters do not want in the county. Make sure you sign up to speak by 5 PM today.

I serve as the Criminal Legal chair of the Philly reparations task force. Our committee has been hard at work studying the legacy of slavery & Jim Crow in Philadelphia. We want to hear from you! @abolitionistlawcenter.org @abolitionschool.bsky.social @phillydefenders.bsky.social @ysrp.bsky.social

👻 If you still have your ballot… don’t let it become a phantom! Fill it, flip it, complete it the way through, then hand deliver it! Find your official drop-off location at vote.pa/return before it disappears. #VotePA #ProtectPACourts

The three-part package would require judges to refer some students to diversion programs instead of detention, limit the number of days students can be held pre-trial, and eliminate most fines and fees from the juvenile court system.

In 2024, the PA Supreme Court heard Derek Lee v. Commonwealth of PA, in which we argued that automatic life without parole sentences (death by incarceration) for 2nd degree murder is cruel & unusual punishment under the constitution. The importance of this Nov. 4 race can't be overstated. #PAVote

Remember to flip your ballot! There are two pages of voting - Municipal and judicial elections are on the front - Judicial retention questions are on the back

Packed hearing, dodged questions. At the first-ever City Council hearing on Philly gov’s use of AI and surveillance, City Councilmembers asked powerful, basic questions to open up the city’s black box of technology, and were disappointed by the city’s lack of answers.

Sign up to be a Philly AI Watchdog to resist data centers and surveillance AI in our communities: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-o...

Join us tomorrow in Philly to help free the wrongfully convicted Jerome "Hoagie" Coffey after 3 decades of incarceration! Tues. 10/21 @ 9:30 AM PA Superior Court: 530 Walnut St. 17th Floor abolitionistlawcenter.org/2025/10/08/o...

Clearfield County will make $1 million over five years to act as the middleman between ICE and the private contractor that operates the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Northeast.

Proud to help get this done and grateful to our allies! www.wtae.com/article/pitt...

"For decades, the FBI and other executive branch agencies have amassed powers to investigate Americans on the premise of combating terrorism. No matter who was in office, the FBI has abused these powers to spy on dissent." via @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/trumps-blu...

"I served 33 years in prison in New York for a crime I did not commit. I was subjected to the barbaric and inhumane torture of solitary confinement for 14 years, and I also witnessed what it did to others." via @timesunion.com www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

...only to be taken into ICE custody www.inquirer.com/news/subu-fr...

Longest-serving PA exoneree finally has charges dropped -- on International Wrongful Conviction Day. www.centredaily.com/news/local/c...

Detention centers are operating just as our carceral facilities do. amp.fresnobee.com/news/califor... #EndSolitary #solitaryconfinement

This is so cool. Radley Balko is a leading voice in journalism about police overreach and he’s had a huge influence on me as a reporter.

Highly recommend this @nacdl.org 3-part webinar series & resources, which provide insight and recommendations on how to make improvements in competency to stand trial systems www.nacdl.org/Content/Comp...

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for over 100 days. Now, he faces deportation —for just doing his job. The same energy that defended Jimmy Kimmel should be used to defend Guevara, a journalist who is not facing any charges. Watch @seth-stern.bsky.social on @meidastouch.com for more.

Her wisdom and bravery continue to guide us and all those struggling to free oppressed peoples. open.substack.com/pub/phillewi...

Without help, her son cycled in and out of jail, as so many with unmet mental health needs do. Our carceral system has become the primary placement for those with psychiatric disabilities.

Public concerns about police militarization, city spending and racial disparities guided Pittsburgh City Council toward some guardrails for a coming master plan of a new public safety campus. buff.ly/U9yzSyz

A Syrian man won his fight to avoid deportation. Ten months later, he remains detained, Stephanie Casanova reports. Kamel Maklad’s case reveals how authorities are imprisoning people who can’t legally be deported until they capitulate & agree to leave the country, immigration experts say.

Hits from the YES! archive of great solutions-oriented journalism in this @truthout.org newsletter that are still relevant and sorely needed, e.g.: -What to Say When People Say “It’s Impossible” -History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work

Israel has “already begun negotiations with the Americans” on a “business plan” to make Gaza, home to 2.2 million Palestinians, into a real estate investment. The plan is on President Donald Trump’s desk, Smotrich claims. He added that the plan is so lucrative the genocide “pays for itself.”

3 Philly correctional officers charged after inmate beaten while naked The incident happened 5 years ago. Rampant human rights abuses of those in Philly jails continue. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

"...some detainees — who spoke with The Inquirer either by phone from the facility or after their release or deportation — report an ongoing practice of using solitary confinement as retaliation for filing grievances."

“Ms. Cahill needed help and the city took her and locked her away. And it resulted in her death.” www.inquirer.com/news/philade...