Incarcerated since 19 yrs old, and serving a 28 year sentence. I am a husband, son, author, and grass roots organizer!
Tacoma, WA
Joined February 2023
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November is Native American Heritage Month.
Sadly, Native people are consistently overrepresented in the US criminal legal system, accounting for only 1% of the total population but 3% of the incarcerated population.
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We wish we had better news. But as of now, #MarcellusWilliams is still scheduled to be executed by Missouri tonight at 6 p.m. central for a crime he is totally innocent of.
Don’t stop sharing his story. It’s not too late to save an innocent life. innocenceproject.org/petitio…
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📣Only 1 week left until the National Parole Transformation Project's workshop addressing the problems and finding solutions in state parole systems.
Sign up now 👉 bit.ly/4g6Da5c
#RealizingRelease
ALT Infographic with details about the Realizing Release workshop
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80% of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caretakers of their children.
Mass incarceration has a ripple effect, causing trauma that can last generations within a single family.
ALT Infographic that says: 80% of women in jails are mothers, and most are the primary or sole caretakers of young children. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/10/24/ten-statistics/
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This Father’s Day, 626,800 fathers will be separated from their children and loved ones.
Incarceration does not just harm people behind bars – it hurts entire families and communities.
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Reminder to lawmakers across the US wishing the LGBTQ+ community a Happy Pride Month: Lesbian, gay, & bisexual people are 2.25x more likely to be arrested than straight individuals.
It’s time to stop the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people.
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Join us tomorrow on May 16th for a National Day of Action in support of ESCA—the bill that says NO to solitary confinement & YES to transformative solutions.
Let's choose #TransformationNotTorture. Spread the word and make a difference! zurl.co/5BSt
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Hey all you Washington activists, have you taken action to support fairness in sentencing?
🖋️Sign in PRO on HB 2065 by 9:30am on Monday 2/19. aclu-wa.org/pages/take-actio…
#WaLeg
🔔 ACTION ALERT: Let your local senator know you support HB 2065 and fairness in sentencing!
🔗Sign in PRO by 9:30 AM on Monday, February 19: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier…
#waleg
Kevin Light-Roth retweeted
Roses are red or at least they ought to be…
If we spent less money on prisons we could use it to fight poverty.
#HappyValentinesDay
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After the prison shut down months of planning for a social justice summit, @AaronOlson1986 created a digital summit consisting solely of voices from inside the prison. Check it out! patreon.com/collection/30492…
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Washington Needs to Finish Fixing Its Racist Superpredator Laws thestranger.com/guest-editor…
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Funding that focused on downtown and Chinatown International District has expired, and planned supplemental funding never materialized, the authority said. st.news/3LvfAkZ
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From a current prisoner: "The case against juvenile adjudications" (@TheHillOpinion)
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Kevin Light-Roth retweeted
Solitary doesn’t teach people a lesson or prepare them for release; it makes them angry, isolated, and more likely to be re-incarcerated.
@ChrisWBlackwell @KevinLightRoth
#criminaljustice #solidaryconfinement #prisons
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