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MA prisoners and organizers fighting for felony voting rights restoration via a ballot campaign!

 Massachusetts, USA
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While an exorbitant number of formerly incarcerated people are homeless, nearly three times as many are housing insecure. The stigma of criminalization perpetuates a dangerous exclusion of vulnerable people from the housing market.
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Our Holiday Canteen Drive is in full effect! Let's keep giving... Help women incarcerated in the DOC get through the holiday season! Love and local solidarity! bit.ly/FreeHerCanteen #FreeHer #ReimaginingCommunities
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#NoCostCalls will be rolled out THIS FRIDAY (December 1)! #KeepFamiliesConnected Securus has posted a set of Frequently Asked Questions & Answers online, with information about getting refunds on prepaid calling and other concerns: securushelp.com/free-communi…
We are reaching out today with exciting news – starting December 1, 2023, communicating with incarcerated individuals at all Massachusetts correctional facilities will be FREE! Although some locations may not offer our entire technology suite, all Securus communications services available at your incarcerated loved one’s facility will be provided at no cost to you. Important notes: Since phone calls will be free, it isn’t necessary for you to have an AdvanceConnect prepaid calling account after December 1 if you only use it to pay for communications with loved ones at correctional facilities in Massachusetts. If that’s the case, you may close your account and request a full refund of the unused balance; for help with that, click here. If you communicate with incarcerated individuals at Securus-served facilities outside of Massachusetts, you should not close your AdvanceConnect account, as doing so would prevent you from receiving calls and paying for communications from those ...

ALT We are reaching out today with exciting news – starting December 1, 2023, communicating with incarcerated individuals at all Massachusetts correctional facilities will be FREE! Although some locations may not offer our entire technology suite, all Securus communications services available at your incarcerated loved one’s facility will be provided at no cost to you. Important notes: Since phone calls will be free, it isn’t necessary for you to have an AdvanceConnect prepaid calling account after December 1 if you only use it to pay for communications with loved ones at correctional facilities in Massachusetts. If that’s the case, you may close your account and request a full refund of the unused balance; for help with that, click here. If you communicate with incarcerated individuals at Securus-served facilities outside of Massachusetts, you should not close your AdvanceConnect account, as doing so would prevent you from receiving calls and paying for communications from those ...

Free Brian Peixoto (@freepeixoto) profile pictureFree Brian Peixoto@freepeixoto28 Nov 2023
Recording on incoming call from Securus tonight confirms free calls beginning 12/1. Just waiting on specifics, restrictions, etc. @sweetadelinevt @GBH @CourtWatchMA @CWBeacon wgbh.org/news/local/2023-11-…
Massachusetts becomes fifth state in nation to make prison calls free

Massachusetts becomes fifth state in nation to make prison calls free

Phone calls will be free starting Dec. 1 after the governor signed the legislation Wednesday.

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Come join the conversation tomorrow at 3:30pm via zoom
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Palestine events in Massachusetts this week! Graphic by @toqaassaf on Instagram
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The other interesting thing- is that this law also makes MA the first to allow free phone calls in county jails. Email communication and video calls will also be free. wgbh.org/news/local/2023-11-… @GBHNews @NPR #mapoli
Massachusetts becomes fifth state in nation to make prison calls free

Massachusetts becomes fifth state in nation to make prison calls free

Phone calls will be free starting Dec. 1 after the governor signed the legislation Wednesday.

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The #MALeg came so far in a year—passing the reenacted bill for #NoCostCalls with a commitment in the bill title to keep calls *unlimited* on Dec. 1, just as they are now! HUGE victory for impacted leaders & organizers + important commitment by #mapoli #KeepFamiliesConnected
Bill H.4052 193rd (Current) AN ACT PROVIDING FOR UNLIMITED FREE PHONE CALLS TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS Sections 50, 85 and 111 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for ...

ALT Bill H.4052 193rd (Current) AN ACT PROVIDING FOR UNLIMITED FREE PHONE CALLS TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS Sections 50, 85 and 111 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for ...

Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts (@PLSMA) profile picturePrisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts@PLSMA17 Nov 2023
After years of advocacy led by directly impacted people, phone calls for incarcerated people and their loved ones are now free in MA! Read the No Cost Calls Coalition's press release here: plsma.org/NCCPress
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This is a huge deal. #mapoli #bospoli "[I]n 28% of stops—more than 1 in 4—involving male drivers with Hispanic last names, police identified the driver as white on their citations. ... likely ... obscur[ing] state and local data used to monitor racial profiling." Read this 🧵:
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"State’s highest court holds the fate of 108 people in its hands" It changed the law on felony murder in 2017 but left them to die behind bars. 82 percent are people of color — 59 percent Black. bostonglobe.com/2023/11/10/o… via @BostonGlobe
State’s highest court holds the fate of 108 people in its hands - The Boston Globe

State’s highest court holds the fate of 108 people in its hands - The Boston Globe

It changed the law on felony murder in 2017 but left them to die behind bars.

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@JohnKRoman7 Nov 2023
This will get no traction because it's not salacious. But, the Council on Criminal Justice finds no change in shoplifting nationally between 2019 and 2023. The organized smash-and-grabs your cable TV station can't stop talking about are rare events. counciloncj.org/shoplifting-...
Shoplifting Trends in Time and Space: A Study of Two Major American Cities - Council on Criminal...

Shoplifting Trends in Time and Space: A Study of Two Major American Cities - Council on Criminal...

This report looks at the prevalence and concentration of shoplifting in two major cities—Los Angeles and Chicago—before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NEW: If you're on parole, you can be sent back to prison for hanging out w/ the wrong people - in 18 states, anyone with a felony record - even if those people are trying to help you succeed. Our friend @KevinPyle2 illustrates our new briefing: prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/1…
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Keri Blakinger@keribla6 Nov 2023
A Senate proposal introduced last week would send THOUSANDS of people released under CARES Act back to federal prison - in some cases years after they were released. It's wild to me that this isn't getting more coverage. reason.com/2023/11/06/senate…
Senate resolution would send federal offenders back to prison 3 years after being released to home...

Senate resolution would send federal offenders back to prison 3 years after being released to home...

The Bureau of Prisons released more than 12,000 people on home confinement during the pandemic. Three years later, Republicans want to overturn a Justice Department rule allowing those still serving...

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Most jailed people have the right to vote – but few can. Legally innocent individuals awaiting a trial never lose the right to vote, and yet they are overwhelmingly denied the ability to cast a ballot. naacpldf.org/detained-and-di…
Individuals incarcerated at the Cook County Jail vote in the Illinois primary election after a polling place in the facility was opened for early voting on Mar. 7, 2020. (Photos by Scott Olson via Getty Images)

ALT Individuals incarcerated at the Cook County Jail vote in the Illinois primary election after a polling place in the facility was opened for early voting on Mar. 7, 2020. (Photos by Scott Olson via Getty Images)

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Tomorrow! Mobilize with faith leaders, people of hope & justice and those who will not rest until there is a ceasefire!
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BLM Boston@BlmBoston25 Oct 2023
#malcolmxsymposium #listentomalcolmx #zionistlogic #revolution #land #big6 #byanymeans #yearofmalcolm #overcometheserightsandlefts #blacknationalism #palestine #meetup #wethepeople #abolition #blackbostonians #wethenorth #blackliberation #blm #blacklivesmatter #blmboston
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In our work, we continue to find that statistics showing the scale of mass incarceration are key to explaining the need for decarceration and the importance of leaving no one behind. We've rounded up the 10 statistics/graphics we use most often: 🧵 prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/1…
Ten statistics about the scale and impact of mass incarceration in the U.S.

Ten statistics about the scale and impact of mass incarceration in the U.S.

A curated list of some of the most useful statistics to help the public comprehend the magnitude of criminalization in the U.S.

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NEW: The odds that an incarcerated person eligible for parole will be granted release have plummeted in recent years. Releases are down 59% in Louisiana, 56% in NJ, 46% in Pennsylvania, 39% in Colorado (data from 2019-2022). Read more in our report: prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/1…
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This is an urgent moment for medical care for incarcerated people in MA. This fall @MAcorrections will solicit bids from private contractors to provide healthcare for incarcerated folks in the state. Now is our chance to change the terms of that contract (1/x)
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The US Government Has Abandoned the Nation’s Poor Poverty is a policy choice — one the U.S. continues to make despite the suffering of millions. truthout.org/articles/the-us…
The US Government Has Abandoned the Nation’s Poor

The US Government Has Abandoned the Nation’s Poor

Poverty is a policy choice — one the U.S. continues to make despite the suffering of millions.

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Join us for our free symposium on mass incarceration and what is needed for reconciliation. Our speakers will touch upon unlawful convictions, disparity in sentences, racial discrimination in corrections, and more. Register here: plsma.org/REICIEvent
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