This is about people who are being held pretrial, without a conviction, and yet are blocked from accessing ballots… until Colorado required polling places in jails.

How I Spend Sundays in a Pennsylvania Women’s Prison

If you want to stay home to raise babies, you should be able to do so. But not everyone wants to do that and THAT's THE POINT. Folks should be able to do what they want AND importantly THE RESOURCES should exist to support those choices. That's the part that these ghouls elide.

The cops shot and killed an activist during STOP COP CITY and then the state criminalized the protesters for indicting over 60 people on RICO charges... THAT IS STILL HAPPENING NOW. Those charges have not been dismissed. The first trials are underway.

Mamdani announced in late October 2024 to little fanfare and in Jan 2025 he was polling in single digits. People should please be serious.

People in prison explain what music means to them — and how they access it. Story via @npr.org from 2024. The piece features PJP contributors.

I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Not one person is made safer by categorizing people as unworthy of housing. #DismantleChangeBuild

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Throughout most of the prison, my nickname is Tree because I’m 7 feet tall. But in the Braille room, my nickname is Ent, an allusion to the tree creatures in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” book series, which many of us have read.

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

What is not in this story but should be is that the opioid overdose crisis has led to a massive increase in the incarceration of women specifically. The children are taken from the parent, but no mention of the parent (usually a woman) who goes to jail. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Some humanity in inhumane places this holiday season. Jail detainees at Cook County Jail heard from faith leaders Christmas morning. Faith leaders were, however, refused access to pray inside Broadview ICE facility.

A group in San Diego has been patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed.

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Roberts will be remembered in the same vein as Taney. The court sprinkles a couple of sane decisions to keep society from rendering it wholly illegitimate.

We wish Happy Holidays to everyone as we rest and reflect on all that this year has brought for us.

Training and equipment they said.

The New Mexico Attorney General’s recent opinion limiting parole for people given life sentences as juveniles coincides with an increased focus on punitive policies for juvenile crime in the state.

Prisons know how devastating it is to spend the holidays behind bars – and they know it's a chance to exploit incarcerated people and their families.

A photo essay on the challenges family members encounter when sending holiday cards to their incarcerated loved ones. thetriibe.com/2023/12/fami...

Even people living above 400% of the poverty line will be affected—particularly older enrollees and those living in higher-premium locations—as they will lose their credits entirely. Around half of those who would lose eligibility are between the ages of 50 and 64. trib.al/ZZVapV0

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Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

“Many of our employees have experienced significant barriers to employment, including housing insecurity, incarceration, substance use disorders and other systemic challenges. We provide employment so that they can turn their lives around.” Story via Bake Magazine, 2024.

What Happened When I Filed a Sexual Abuse Claim in Prison

“Faith leaders were turned away from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Christmas Eve morning after attempting to enter and pray with detainees.” The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.

Evil pure evil.

"For my third Christmas behind bars, I proposed a new tradition to my friends: a holiday feast. Our sources of income varied from legitimate jobs to various side hustles, and together we pooled what we could from the canteen and kitchen."

The Intercept reports on the companies that are making millions as ICE bounty hunters: theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

Using floor wax and colored pencils, John W. Zenc creates his own acrylic paints. His art has earned him the nickname “Picasso.” Here’s how the 65-year-old, working with Q-tips and toothpicks, has become a remarkably resourceful artist.

“It's like those old Western movies where all you see is tumbleweeds blowing in the breeze,” said Roxana, a 42-year-old hair salon owner from Guatemala.” “Two shop owners said they lost 90% of their revenue to the initial stages of Midway Blitz.”

“Pineda-Mesa said he was first sent to west suburban Broadview, where he described being placed in a room with more than 200 men and having nowhere to sleep.”

He's only getting close to being 5' 9" if he's rocking some of these. 😂

“It was the worst day of my life,” Amin said, recalling the day she checked his location and found him at the Broadview processing center. “He’s not going back — we will fight tooth and nail before we let him go back to Pakistan.”

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

An Ojibwe band is suing to overturn a federal permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline, arguing the reroute would pollute their wetlands and threaten treaty‑protected waters, wild rice, and other vital resources.

"A girl new to prison was sobbing as she told her parents how much she missed them and wanted to be home. Another call involved a girl trying to keep her child’s attention on the phone. The girl tried to keep her composure, but you could tell it was hurting her." #2022

“By this fall, ICE agents were arresting people at a higher rate in Illinois than almost anywhere else in the country.” “The people arrested here were as young as 4 and as old as 75.” “Most weren’t charged with a crime. But many of those arrested have already been deported.”

I received a thank you from some library workers for this piece after a Chicago city budget was passed this week without the previously proposed library cuts I described here. Many thanks to everyone who made noise about this issue. There were wins and losses in this budget, but this win matters.

The thing I can't seem to get over is that this guy thought it was bad enough to "break ties" with Epstein but not bad enough to do something to stop young girls from being trafficked. Ain't no damn sword! WTH!

Mayor Brandon Johnson will speak at a press conference around 10:00 a.m. this morning. Johnson could still veto the alternate budget vote; according to his budget team, the alternate proposal is unbalanced and Johnson has called the budget “morally bankrupt.” thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...

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