"A state attorney in #Florida has apologized for a “racist” memo produced by staff in a rural county office of all-white prosecutors, advocating more severe punishments for defendants who are Hispanic.
The document covering plea deals was exposed by a whistleblower former employee who worked briefly for [the] state attorney ... based in Tallahassee."
Absolutely horrid.
"An #Atlanta man died in a local jail after being eaten alive by #bedbugs, alleges a lawyer representing the man’s family.
The family of Lashawn Thompson, 35, is calling for a criminal investigation ... and for the closure and replacement of a local jail after alleging that Thompson died in custody from bed bugs in a squalid #jail cell."
"The cell was so filthy that an employee wore a hazmat suit upon entering...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/15/atlanta-jail-man-dead-eaten-bed-bugs
#atlanta #bedbugs #jail #newjimcrow #prisonabolition
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #NewJimCrow #MassIncarceration
"Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race."
Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
#blackmastodon #BlackFedi #newjimcrow #massincarceration
So much for the sweet release of death: #Alabama is so prison-happy, it recently denied #parole to a man who had died a week earlier.
Sadly, he was in good company -- the state granted parole in just 6% of cases in the last fiscal year, down from 50% five years earlier.
And let's not even get started on how he joins a growing number of in-custody deaths in the state's barbaric prisons.
@gratefuldread They also didn't block individual AP culture classes for #AsianAmerican studies or for cultural studies classes for a wide variety of #European countries.
Screw #AfricanAmerican students. After all, Ron Deathsentence told us in so many words that #woke in #Florida means #Black and mixed people, and he said Florida is where the woke go to die. I take that statement LITERALLY. I must.
#education #antiracism #bigotry #stopwokeact #amerikkka #plantationnation #schools #newjimcrow
#asianamerican #european #africanamerican #woke #florida #black #education #antiracism #bigotry #stopwokeact #amerikkka #plantationnation #Schools #newjimcrow
@TonyStark Why should Republicans start complaining about white supremacists when white supremacy is the whole subtext of the Reagan Revolution, which still going today. Just like Jim Crow was a backlash to reconstruction, Reagan Revolution was a backlash to the Civil Rights era. The backlash periods last 10x longer than the instigating events, apparently.
#NewJimCrow
The jail population in my town is 63% black, probably because the sheriff campaigned on putting more cops in the two predominantly black, low SES areas. If they gave a shit about crime they would have taken steps to address rapes on campus #hellworld #rolltide #newjimcrow
#hellworld #RollTide #newjimcrow
EVERYONE'S RACIST!
Hey I know, let's segregate our population again by way of national anthem! Good idea... Why isn't there a Spanish American national anthem? Why no LGBQTCVWEYZ1233 national anthem?
https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1338586645151543298?s=20