Fighting for people & communities harmed by the criminal legal system. When there's freedom, we can talk about justice. #FreeJasonCarroll
MA, NH, VT, RI, ME, CT
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Please join us where the skies are bluer! We are joining so many of our community members in migrating over to Bluesky and we’d love to see you there so we can be in community and resist together. LFG!
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If you have not migrated over to Bluesky, please join us there! We are active there and will be sharing some BIG news this week!
Please join us where the skies are bluer! We are joining so many of our community members in migrating over to Bluesky and we’d love to see you there so we can be in community and resist together. LFG!
@newenglandinnocence.org
New England Innocence Project retweeted
“I’m calling on him to go farther, because he has the power, and he should use it,” said @AyannaPressley, noting that Biden hasn’t yet used his clemency power to release anyone from prison.
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New England Innocence Project retweeted
Jason's case may the most infuriating #wrongfulconviction of them all, as his mother, a police officer, was in the interrogation room with Sgt. Lamy, yelling at her son, demanding he confess.
That's not supposition, either.
It was (audio) recorded:
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New England Innocence Project retweeted
#Delphi
Sadly, plenty of innocent people have "confessed" to murders they didn't commit.
"False confession" is the quasi-official terminology, but, I prefer the language #CynthiaMousseau (of @NEInnocence and attorney for innocent man #JasonCarroll), used on @Undisclosedpod:
Today is Edward Wright’s birthday. He’s been in prison 40 years for a murder he did not commit. We are hopeful this is going to be his last birthday in prison. Learn about our efforts to overturn his wrongful conviction here:
newenglandinnocence.org/inno…
New England Innocence Project retweeted
Please join us where the skies are bluer! We are joining so many of our community members in migrating over to Bluesky and we’d love to see you there so we can be in community and resist together. LFG!
@newenglandinnocence.org
New England Innocence Project retweeted
As someone who was unjustly surveilled for activism as a community organizer with the Black Panthers, I stand in solidarity with Malcolm X’s daughters.
COINTELPRO devastated Black communities. That’s why I co-lead the COINTELPRO Full Disclosure Act.
We need truth and justice.
The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination apnews.com/article/malcolmx-…
New England Innocence Project retweeted
Ppl act like there’s just one thing that’s been shown to reduce crime. Lining streets with trees & having bright street lights reduce crime. Summer job programs reduce crime. None of those things involve people who beat/maim/kill Black ppl, esp the poor, with impunity. So yeah.
Overturning wrongful convictions forces us to go back to the same court system that failed us and maintain hope that it will provide what it is not well-designed to deliver: justice.
The Texas Supreme Court has cleared the way for another execution date for Robert Roberson
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New England Innocence Project retweeted
The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
An important thread about San Francisco with truths that resonate everywhere -- including in New England.
🧵 Conservatives ginned up panic about crime in San Francisco & helped install tough-on-crime prosecutor Brooke Jenkins, who was reelected last week. Here is a #longread about the real people the narrative hurt—incl. women trapped in jail without sunlight. theappeal.org/women-languish…
New England Innocence Project retweeted
“GEO Group was built for this unique moment in our country’s history,” said the private prison giant’s chairman to investors this week. After maxing out on campaign donations, it’s now preparing for mass surveillance and deportations under the new admin.
GEO stock is up 46%
New England Innocence Project retweeted
Next Friday, 11/15, join us for an all-day conference:
Media Mythmaking of Punishment and Safety: Changing the Narrative on Race, Crime & Reform
5 panels + Keynote by @YohanceLacour
Free and open to the public, but space is limited!
RSVP required:
bit.ly/MediaMythmaking
ALT Sponsored by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School and the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School Media Mythmaking of Punishment and Safety: Changing the Narrative on Race, Crime & Reform Keynote Speaker: Yohance Lacour, Pulitzer Prize Winner, You Didn't See Nothin Podcast + Five Panels, including: Adrian Walker • Nazita Lajevardi • Cheryl-Thompson Morton • Heather Silber Mohamed • Robert Vargas • Alec Karakatsanis • Cerise Castle • Ramzi Kassem • Ames Grawert • Nazgol Ghandnoosh • Mark Joseph Stern • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Marcela García • Brandon Soderberg • Danielle Slakoff • Rahsaan “New York” Thomas • Morgan Elise Johnson • Yawu Miller • Adrienne Johnson Martin Friday, November 15 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Milstein West A&B Wasserstein Hall, 2nd floor Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 open to all, but space is limited. Pre-registration required. For more info and to register: bit.ly/MediaMythmaking
New England Innocence Project retweeted
I’m so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two —
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Tired, Langston Hughes
President Biden should immediately commute the sentences of everyone on the federal death row. Wrongful convictions are a feature - not a bug - of our criminal legal system, and this administration can save lives now before it’s too late.
The Presidents change but the same people continue to suffer. That’s the constant we have always known. We will continue to fight to free people from prison today, tomorrow, and until we are all free.
We will stand with marginalized and vulnerable people no matter who is in power or the resistance we face. We will build with our community and work to dismantle the systems that oppress us. Our liberation is in each other.
Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Robert Roberson Still on Death Row? | Scientific American scientificamerican.com/artic…
