The Philadelphia Police Department has been operating a drone program for two years without the kind of transparency and oversight common in other major cities.

The state House Judiciary Committee was set to vote on a bill that would have addressed the problem. But as the panel’s meeting started, its chairman, Rep. Tim Briggs (D-Montgomery), announced he would be pulling the bill from consideration.

University of Pittsburgh took harsh action against students & faculty protesting the Gaza genocide. Allegheny County DA Zappala then sought to prosecute 20 students, overcharging 8 w/ felonies Now our former intern Mohammad Ali faces decades in prison for exercising his First Amendment rights.

The U.S. military is the largest institutional polluter in the world. Endless wars, including our most recent strikes on Iran, not only risk catastrophic conflict but also accelerate climate collapse. @abbymartin0.bsky.social 🔗 Full interview below

Thursday in Philly! Major Tillery is in his 70s. This is his 4th attempt to free himself via PA's Post-Conviction Relief Act after being wrongfully convicted for political reasons decades ago. Free our elders! Free all political prisoners! iacenter.org/2020/05/27/i...

Congratulations to @abolitionistlawcenter.org on this important legal victory. A diabetic man died in a Philly jail due to not receiving insulin. We need systems of repair not jails that torture and abuse. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

The jurors found that Louis Jung Jr.'s November 2023 death was part of a pattern of constitutional violations under the leadership of former prisons Commissioner Blanche Carney.

Our (@psjpbc.bsky.social) next policy briefing is on the use of Sentinel Event Reviews as a tool for changing deadly police policies and practices. March 10th on Zoom. RSVP in comments.

Is the Philadelphia school district silencing another leading Black antiracist educator? actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

“If you keep someone in your custody, you have to care for them,” as ALC lawyer Nia Holston lawyer said in her opening statement. “Louis Jung’s death was not inevitable.” The Philly jails' “culture of indifference” allowed him to die of diabetic ketoacidosis. metrophiladelphia.com/stories/fede...

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it safely and in a timely way.

Practitioners from the community violence prevention space are stepping into politics.

We will stand with all our allies in this fight until Hoagie is free and this long, cruel era of mass incarceration has ended.

Amazing work is being done by the PA Justice Alliance, a coalition of amazing orgs like @1hoodpower.bsky.social @aclupa.org @famm.org & many others. We're building on decades of movement work to push state officials to end mass incarceration in PA. Learn more pajusticealliance.org

We're planning to expand the database to include more ICE profiteers' donations to congress. We'd love to hear your suggestions about what companies we should include! Feel free to comment below or DM me. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

How body cameras played right into police hands — and assist ICE in tracking and kidnapping US residents @equalityalec.bsky.social

Another person died in Allegheny County Jail yesterday. A 55-year-old man, found unresponsive. We mainly use jails to hold people for the crime of mental illness, substance use disorder, or poverty. This needs to stop. Decarcerate now.

15 of 17 Philly Councilmembers endorse ICE OUT legislation. US Senate votes 55-45 – including Fetterman! – to block funding for DHS while ICE is terrorizing people. Still plenty of ways these officials can cave, but this progress came from people demanding action against brutal carceral forces.

ICE is killing people & Congress is funding it. Right now @fetterman.senate.gov is the ONLY Democratic Senator supporting funding for ICE. He can lecture ICE all he wants but the most powerful tool to rein them in is $$$. Call him & don't let off the gas until he commits: NOT 1 MORE DOLLAR FOR ICE.

The public execution of white bystanders Renee Good & now Alex Pretti, with seeming immunity, "marks a profound and irreversible escalation against communities committed to justice. A red line has been crossed." That license to kill is expanding from the state's policing & carceral systems.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Everett Palmer, Jr., died after he was strapped to a restraint chair in York County's jail in 2018. A grand jury made recommendations to prevent similar deaths. Instead of implementing them, York County used the chair 1,295 times—more often any other jail in PA. theappeal.org/york-county-...

Dozens attended last night's Philly Prison Oversight Board Advocates coalition meeting. If you're interested in supporting folks at State Road, fighting for decarceration, and holding the jails accountable for their inhumane treatment of people detained there, email [email protected] to get involved!

If only they’d listened… DC, 2020

Join ALC Court Watch at 3pm for an info session on court watching as a powerful movement tool – giving voice to the people and transparency & accountability to systems that enact violence in our communities. Hear how its being in Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, Tennessee & PA! bit.ly/mlkdaycw

“Any mental health professional who professes that children can't be rehabilitated is the 20th & 21st century equivalent of those who believed in phrenology,” our legal director told @publicsource.org But that's who Gov. Shapiro chose to fill a Board of Pardons vacancy—the worst possible candidate.

TODAY: We’re teaming up with @aclu.org, @moveon.org, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, and more friends for a call-in day to drive as many calls to Congress as possible. Join us to demand our elected officials use the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill to get ICE Out For Good.

Join us tonight 5-7:30 pm in Pittsburgh for a Know Your Rights Training w/ @1hoodpower.bsky.social Learn how ramped up police activity is impacting both citizens & noncitizens, and what you can do. ASL provided. www.eventbrite.com/e/1hood-x-ca...

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Advocates are raising concerns about protections for transgender people incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail following a series of anti-trans directives from the Trump administration.

For the last few months, I kept a document where every time I saw reports of fed immigration agents shooting or pointing their gun at someone, I made a note. The list grew and grew. It now includes 4 deaths. Here is what I noticed keeping that list. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

A Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press attorney sent a letter to the ACJOB warning them that they are out of complicance for the state's Sunshine Act transparency rules. Please join us at this month's public meeting TODAY to help hold the AJCOB accountable! www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

Mr. Mamdani is directing the Correction & Law Depts to work w/ the federal monitor to carry out a 2023 law banning solitary confinement in city jails. Adams had tried to veto the law & then declared a state of emergency that blocked key parts of it. #solitaryistorture www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/n...

"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