BUT Y THO

LA jails just posted their 11th incustody death for this year. This comes after several weeks w/o any in custody deaths they are reporting, which has to be one of the longer breaks in deaths that I can recall since I've been following this

What are we doing here wtf

ok so when i fly out of houston now i have a choice between the ... airport an hour away with a four-hour wait and the airport with ICE patrolling inside?

A federal prison internal report from 2024 says that "excessive heat" is causing some prisons' aging cooling systems to fail climate change x mass incarceration = ....

Somewhere relatedly, here are some highlights from BOP's 5-year infrastructure plan that I received today

Another of the LASD deputies involved in the wild leg-lengthening crypto mogul extortion case has been decertified by the state (and thus can no longer be a cop in CA). Background (for that insane and wild sentence) here: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Wuttt www.latimes.com/california/s...

Oh my god I needed this laugh. Amazing.

Well that’s enough internet for today. Time to hurl myself out a window.

“If in the future, she can’t get access to birth control, then at least I’ll have myself taken care of, and I’ll be able to take care of her in that way,” he said.

Final statement from Cedric Ricks, who was executed tonight in Texas:

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

A Klan lawyer was assigned to represent a Black man, Rocky Meyers. Meyers is still in prison. How many other people did this Klan lawyer represent who languish in prison?

I just got back records from a records request I made to the BOP*! *three jobs ago. I made the request three jobs ago, in 2022. v helpful.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

well then www.latimes.com/california/s...

Incredible. 19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.

Oh hey guys look the LA Sheriff's Dept investigated itself and found no deputy gangs. WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT

LASD has not posted any new deputy disciplinary files to its portal since December so i guess that's it, no more problems in the department everything's good you guys

Update: The (very annoyed) federal judge issued an order to show cause, naming all the officers individually involved and telling them and ordering them to explain why they should not be held in civil contempt: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Citing my reporting for @propublica.org, 4 House Dems have formally asked the head of the federal prison system to explain how the agency will fix severe staffing shortages affecting safety and operations. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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NEW: The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director. By @keribla.bsky.social

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Books do not bring drugs into prison. Prison guards bring drugs into prison.

look like everything in the BOP is going well, as per usual

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Did anyone lose their cheese in Hollywood bc I think I found it

Great reporting from @keribla.bsky.social on the special treatment the Trump admin has given ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Citing my reporting for @propublica.org - about how federal prisons are losing staff to ICE - House Dems are raising concerns about how that's impacing prisoners' lives and demanding BOP answer Q's as to what the agency is doing about it democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Today - a year after he was federally convicted of a felony for throwing a Black woman to the ground in a WinCo parking lot - former LASD deputy Trevor Kirk finally "separated" from the sheriff's dept, the agency just told me:

Left, my story about how the right wing ex-Honduran president was given special treatment after he was pardoned for drug trafficking - and had his ICE detainer dropped. Right, a story about a man who spent 43 yrs in prison for a wrongful conviction & was deported once his convicted was overturned

oh cool cool cool reason.com/2026/02/16/t...

@keribla.bsky.social does it again. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The bar is run by the Philadelphia police association.

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"[R]ed carpet." "[P]rison officials paid a specialized tactical team overtime to drive Hernández from a high-security facility in West Virginia to the famed five-star Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York." #NewYork #USA #Honduras #Pardons #Drugs #Voting #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

“Despite persistent budget and staffing shortages, prison officials paid a specialized tactical team overtime to drive Hernández from a high-security facility in West Virginia to the famed five-star Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City”

Great piece by @keribla.bsky.social at @propublica.org on Orlando Hernandez's "Waldorf" treatment. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

After railing against narcoterrorists + deporting migrants w/no criminal record, President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president last year – then federal officials lifted his ICE hold & whisked him to the Waldorf Astoria My latest for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Scathing details from ProPublica's @keribla.bsky.social: BOP officials urgently worked to get former Honduran Pres. Juan Hernandez's detainer removed, paid overtime to a specialized team to drive JOC to a five-star hotel after Trump pardoned him on drug charges. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Trump administration is bombing supposed drug boats and arresting people with no criminal record. But the former Honduran president who WAS convicted of drug-related offenses didn't just get a Trump pardon, he got a government escort 350 miles to his NYC hotel. New @keribla.bsky.social

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...