@cripjustice

Organizing, advocating, and sharing resources around the intersections of policing, prisons and disability justice. https://xitter.cf/t.co/80YLT8o2QD

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Neurodivergent Black children are under-diagnosed and over-punished.
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Watchdog Calls on State to Address Youth Prison Crisis, Citing New York Focus Reporting @nysfocus nysfocus.com/2026/04/17/yout… Prolonged solitary confinement of children is among the issues cited.

Watchdog Calls on State to Address Youth Prison Crisis

A child welfare oversight body raised concerns after New York Focus reported on conditions in the facilities.

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BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor. housingnothandcuffs.org/2026…

Louisiana advances bill to funnel homeless people into forced treatment and unpaid labor

This bill requires homeless people to pay for the very treatment they are forced into. And if the person cannot pay the cost of treatment, this bill requires them to perform unpaid labor for the...

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Survivors of solitary confinement report higher levels of mental health disorders post-release than other inmates. As a result, they face significant challenges reintegrating into society, making recidivism likely without adequate resources. Read more: tinyurl.com/5ak5kxjc
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Human Rights Violations in Psychiatry By Laura López-Aybar You are locked inside with nowhere to go, you get visitors once a week, you can’t freely call people throughout the day, you have no privacy, the food is restricted to a schedule... buff.ly/cuq5Ipw
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This week, DRC's Policy Analyst Sabrina Epstein testified in California's Assembly Budget Committee, connecting federal cuts from HR 1 to current issues for disabled Californians and the violence against immigrants carried out by our government. #DisabilityRightsCA #HR1 #MediCal #IHSS #Immigration . . Video Description: Sabrina sits at a table in the State Capitol. She is has short, dark, curly hair and wears glasses and a black and white blazer. Assemblymember Jackson is briefly shown at the start of the video.
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ABC News
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A 27-year-old Cuban immigrant has died of a presumed suicide, according to ICE officials, marking the 48th death in ICE custody during the second Trump administration. abcnews.link/5Psv2Rg

Cuban immigrant's apparent suicide is 48th death in ICE custody during 2nd Trump administration

A 27-year-old Cuban immigrant has died of a presumed suicide, according to ICE officials, marking the 48th death in ICE custody during the second Trump administration.

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Bass has spent $391M to only permanently house 1,431 people.
Karen Bass
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127 Inside Safe operations. We’re changing the broken system that neglected the problem for decades. Homelessness is down two years in a row.
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I know a lot of people are aggressively in denial about this, but make no mistake: Eugenics is actively unfolding in Canada. Right now. Today.
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Canada now offering SAME-DAY assisted suicide, with one elderly woman who changed her mind killed anyway trib.al/b7Uk525

Canada now offering SAME-DAY assisted suicide

Canada performed thousands of same-day assisted suicides, including euthanizing an elderly woman who had withdrawn her request just the day before.

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Electronic Intifada
@intifadaMar 8
With a record number of amputees in Gaza, Israel considers prosthetic limbs to be "dual use" items — potential weapons — and is severely restricting their entry electronicintifada.net/blogs…

Israel punishes Gaza as it attacks Iran

Two Palestinian men shot and killed by rampaging settlers in occupied West Bank.

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Each year, thousands of pregnant people are incarcerated – yet some states fail to provide basic care and necessary accommodations during pregnancy. Locking up pregnant people does not leave anyone better off.
Graph showing that some US state prison systems fail to provide extra pillows, offer special diets, or psychosocial support during pregnancy

ALT Graph showing that some US state prison systems fail to provide extra pillows, offer special diets, or psychosocial support during pregnancy

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These Women Exposed Prison Sexual Abuse. Now ICE Wants to Deport Them.

Federal protections against detention and deportation for sexual abuse survivors have deteriorated under Trump.

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Solitary Watch@solitarywatchMar 5
Third Death in Four Weeks Rocks New York's Bedford Hills Women’s Prison @nysfocus nysfocus.com/2026/03/05/bedf…

Third Death in Four Weeks Rocks Bedford Hills Women’s Prison

This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility.

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ProPublica
@propublicaMar 7
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures. propublica.org/article/life-…

The Children of Dilley

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear...

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We are continuing to demand justice for a change to VSP Victorville. To force them to help and support inmates and people with disabilities and make sure they are granted the rights they rightfully deserve.
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ICE Arrests Have Made My Dad Scared to Visit Me in Prison prisonjournalismproject.org/…

ICE Arrests Have Made My Dad Scared to Visit Me in Prison

My dad is fourth-generation American. But he looks Hispanic, and that’s enough to get harassed or detained in the United States.

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Mother Jones
@MotherJonesFeb 18
James Marion Sims, known as “the father of modern gynecology," achieved his breakthroughs by experimenting on Black girls and women, without anesthesia or meaningful consent. It’s an origin story the US medical establishment has spent almost 180 years trying to reconcile, whitewash, or ignore. motherjones.com/politics/202…

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

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NBC News
@NBCNewsFeb 18
A Pennsylvania man who spent 43 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned, only to be taken straight into immigration custody, is denied bail while he fights deportation. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pen…

Pennsylvania man cleared after 43 years in prison for murder denied bail during deportation fight

Subramanyam Vedam's attorney argued that he would have most likely been spared deportation and become a citizen if not for the murder case, given immigration laws at the time.

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HAPPENING NOW: Hubbard High School students in Chicago walk out of class to protest ICE. Chicago has seen daily anti-ICE walkouts for two weeks.
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Younger generations are targeted and also making the path "Children arent figures of innocence for political rhetoric or ​bait for fed agents to use in hunting down parents. Young people are not just a part of our struggles, but at the forefront of them" inthesetimes.com/article/in-…

In the Fight Against ICE, Kids Are on the Front Lines

From tear gas attacks to violent abductions, we are collectively witnessing the mass-scale abuse of children. Young people are fighting back.

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