our friend Kenneth West
artist, writer, and prisoner in #Texas #TDCJ

has donated his artwork
to give away
to whoever can answer
our #Brooklyn #TriviaGame question first:

WHAT YEAR did #Williamsburg and #Bushwick consolidate with Brooklyn, making the city of Brooklyn the 3rd largest in the Union (after New York and Philadelphia)?

the artwork is pictured in this post, titled: "In Memory of George Floyd."

You can see Kenneth's artwork, and read his writing, here:
https://www.thekennethwest.com/

"The state raised the price from $4.80/case (24 bottles) to $7.20/case on June 27.... About two-thirds of Texas #prisons lack #AirConditioning, and 271 #deaths between 2001-2019 may have been caused by extreme #heat days..."

"#TDCJ has pointed out the men have access to #TapWater.... Other current #inmates commented on the #smell of tap water in specific facilities resembling #sewage."

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues
#Texas charges #prisoners 50% more for #water as #HeatWave continues

#IAmDB

RT @jettica65@twitter.com

#RobertFratta will be busy the next two days! #TDCJ will be preparing him for his scheduled execution! This is an unbelievable process to witness! And no one ever should! There is no justice in the #DeathPenalty…but they sure like to dress it up like there is! #StopExecutions

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jettica65/status/1612173893560852482

If you want more deets but don't have time to read 60-plus pages of reports, here's my round-up of some highlights with John Tedesco

#texas #escape #tdcj #prisonreform https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/hc120922TDCJREPORT-17641667.php

A Texas inmate hijacked a prison bus last summer, evaded authorities for weeks, and brutally killed a Tomball man and his four grandsons.

It was one of the deadliest prison escapes in U.S. history.

@keribla and I spent months figuring out what went wrong. Here's our story, in a collaboration with @marshallproj and @houstonchron:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/12/06/texas-prison-escape-gonzalo-lopez-collins-tomball-murder

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/prison-escape-investigation-lopez-collins-tomball-17632747.php

#texas #criminaljustice #tdcj #prison #news