@prisonpolicy.org is doing SUCH IMPORTANT work on the connections between the kidnapping of our neighbors via ICE and DHS and local police and jails. Please follow them, read their work, signal boost, and support them whenever you can. And then fight for Abolition Now!

What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails. Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.

🚨Trump's deportation agenda isn't possible without the cooperation of local jails and police – and new data confirms it. Our latest briefing examines 2025 arrest data to reveal the full scope of which states have thwarted ICE's mission, and which have greatly enabled it 🧵

NEW: From the Bronx to Accra, lives are being rebuilt — or dismantled — under a U.S.–Ghana deportation pact few know exists. In Ghana, I met the people caught in between: the deported, the waiting, the afraid. Read the story: capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-dep...

Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.

From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.

So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

Vera is hiring a graduate student intern for the summer on my team. We’re researching incarceration and inequality, and looking for ~20 hours a week, in Brooklyn. Please share with graduate students you know who might be interested. boards.greenhouse.io/verainstitut...

New analysis from our team at the Vera Institute shows urban jail incarceration rates continue to decline. By spring 2024, urban jail rates were 30 percent under the national rate while rural county jails are 71 percent higher than the national rate (per 100k working age adults).

Criminology – the flagship journal in the discipline – recently published an article with completely erroneous results about the impact of reduced policing on crime. This has major implications for public budgets and public policy.

Texas suburbs are building a lot of new jails--my colleagues and I wrote about one. Just published with the Vera Institute: www.vera.org/in-our-backy...