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Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
All across the nation tomorrow, millions of people who love America will gather for “No Kings” rallies. Louise and I will be at Railroad Park in Birmingham at 10 am. Please make the effort to show up at a rally near you and demonstatrate your love for America and democracy
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Above all, trust was the foundation for every success. Participatory research proved most effective where relationships were strong and communication consistent. Read the full PRII report here: www.urban.org/research/pub... #PRII #CriminalJustice #Reform #Research
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What We Learned about Participatory Research in Prisons
This report for the Urban Institute’s Prison Research and Innovation Initiative (PRII) documents the challenges and opportunities in improving prison living …
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
5. Pair research with early wins. Small, low-cost improvements—better staff training, clearer grievance communication—build trust and show that feedback leads to change. 6. Work beyond the walls. Reform strengthens when DOCs connect with policymakers and community partners.
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
3. Identify a project champion. A trusted staff leader who bridges groups can sustain progress and morale. 4. Use efficient, inclusive research methods. Short surveys, interviews, and walkabouts reduce burden and encourage participation.
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1. Leadership buy-in matters. Lasting change requires ongoing support from the top and middle levels of management, as well as daily reinforcement from staff who carry reforms forward. 2. Address “us vs. them” dynamics early.
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Across five states, PRII partners found that change in prisons depends on relationships, transparency, and follow-through. Engagement must include everyone: commissioners, wardens, line staff, and incarcerated people.
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We found that participatory approaches can work in prisons when leadership and staff are engaged, trust is built over time, and both staff and incarcerated people see tangible results from their input.
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
After six years of work across five state DOCs, @urbaninstitute.bsky.social and partners share key findings from the Prison Research and Innovation Initiative (PRII), a study of how community-engaged methods can improve prison operations and culture. 🧵
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Nathan Young @nvyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Good morning. Jimmy Kimmel is coming back tonight, but not on Sinclair, including ABC 33/40 here in Alabama. Disney / ABC should play hardball. Don't air Jimmy Kimmel? We don't allow you to air our sports coverage, including the Alabama game, this weekend. Everyone would panic!
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PANDA™ @pandanook.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Sinclair Broadcasting says they're not going to air Kimmel Live. Number one that can fuck themselves because everybody streams anyway, number two we need to bombard their top advertisers and demand they pull their ads. ABC 33/40 Birmingham AL Here's a few •Nationwide •KFC •GEICO •Trustmark •Chevy
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Red Mountain Images @2old4ts.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
RIP (Sorry this is one day late)
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Will the 2nd Amendment protect us? Don’t be silly. But the 6th might. Let’s discuss.
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BirminghamWatch @bhamwatch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"National news organizations get criticized for insufficient volume and prominence of protest coverage. That was especially the case with Hands Off," writes Tom Arenberg, an instructor of news media at the University of Alabama. birminghamwatch.org/2025/06/11/t...
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The Many Problems With Media Coverage of Protests - BirminghamWatch
The organizer of a local protest asked the big newspaper in town if it planned to cover the event. The answer was no. The organizer paused. “Then maybe we won’t do it.”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/06/2025
New research by @fwd.us found that people with an immediate family member in prison spend over $4,000 every year on their loved one who is incarcerated. Our families deserve better.
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The true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize, researchers say
A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year — almost four times the government's estimate for ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Alabamafication is the politics of cutting off your nose to spite your face. When we kill scholarship programs meant to help black med students, our face is a bloodily, mutilated mess, and good luck finding a doctor to help with that. From @johnarchibald.bsky.social www.al.com/news/2025/04...
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Archibald: UAB fears Trump reprisals, kills scholarship for Black med students
"They're just another parrot parroting the same misguided racial nonsense and tropes."
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"The intent is not to harm theater or anything like that. The intent, of course, is to eliminate drag.” OK but drag is a form of theater. Gonna allow Peter Pan but not Caberet? What's the line? Who's allowed to have fun pretending and who's forbidden to do so? alabamareflector.com/2025/04/24/p...
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Proposed Alabama drag ban could impact high school theater productions | Alabama Reflector
Theater groups say the bill's use of "sex identity" would limit the ability of women to take on men's roles in school productions.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
That’s a win-win. The state gets accountability and revenue. Judges and clerks don’t waste time chasing debtors who can’t pay. Debtors pay their debt and ideally deterred from doing whatever illegal thing they did to incur it.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Since 2023, I have done DOJ-funded work aimed at making the assessment and collections process associated with court fines and fees more fair and efficient. DOJ just terminated the project.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This project was intended to improve revenue collection processes while also making the criminal legal system more fair while simultaneously reducing waste in use of judicial resources. Anyway it’s dead now because apparently those goals are worthless. Gonna go cry now.
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I swore I would never be one of those columnists who writes about me pets. But dammit, sometimes the world needs you to write about your pets. Hope you'll read this one. www.al.com/news/2025/04...
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Archibald: Why dogs deserve obituaries
He reminded me that we all have a lot more in common than we think.
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Red Mountain Images @2old4ts.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Hands Off! Birmingham Fights Back · Hands Off
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** We are fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and da...
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Red Mountain Images @2old4ts.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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And I shook my head: op-ed
First, they came in the night for students legally in this country because they did not like what they said or wrote.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Like, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”-level serious
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If we’re talking “things that cause Alabama Republicans to fall,” the stupidity will have to include at least (a) soliciting a minor at the Gadsden Mall or (b) texts featuring the likes of “Bless our hearts (and other parts)” 🌹
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Excited to be in San Juan for this year’s AP-LS conference, a first for me and a fantastic meeting so far. I’ll be talking about collaboration and translational research in corrections at Saturday’s plenary. Come by if you are attending! #corrections #criminaljustice
Cover of American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference 2025, along with photo of colorful San Juan buildings
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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Here we go…
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Staff at West Virginia federal prison resign after retention pay cuts in federal prisons
Recruitment and retention pay that has been used to address severe staff shortages at federal prisons across the country is being cut, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today is a really good day to do something. Read the Constitution. Have a talk with a stranger about DOGE. Volunteer at a food bank. Be kind to people. Whatever you do, don’t just throw your hands up in the air & assume Trump gets away with it all. We are still a rule of law country. Insist on it.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
2/What you really want when you’re working a protection detail is a truck with a recall on it www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-r...
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Tesla recalls its Cybertruck for the fifth time in less than a year
Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertruck vehicles because of problems with their rearview camera.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
1/So, the guy who is supposedly fighting waste & corruption in government just got a $400 mil contract with that same government he’s supposedly overseeing for his trucks that get, let’s just say less than stellar reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks (Gift Article)
The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Coping in this world is pretty easy. Just forget everything you learned in kindergarten. www.al.com/news/2025/02...
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Archibald: What it feels like to be wrong about America
I was brainwashed by my past.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I second this. I came to Alabama 14 years ago to do civil rights work, & being a Jewish northeasterner, it took me a minute to get accustomed to invocations of God. But Black churches & faith-based orgs REMAIN the backbone of the movement here today. You don’t have to give an amen to be respectful.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
1/ I keep returning to one core thought: civics education really matters. It’s absence, at least in part, is what makes a Donald Trump and a MAGA movement possible.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In a postage stamp of a town at the southernmost tip of Appalachia, a minister and self-described anarchosocialist operates Alabama's only Narcan vending machine. I wrote about his lifesaving work in this, my first piece for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-o...
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The Only Narcan Vending Machine In Alabama
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
There are 395 incarcerated firefighters "actively engaged on multiple fronts" in the California fires, according to state officials. They are working with nearly 2,000 CAL FIRE firefighters in the LA area. So more than 1 in 10 fire fighters (16% to be exact) are from prisons.
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Just Detention International @justdetention.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Jimmy Carter was a vocal advocate for criminal justice reform, including calling for an end to the death penalty and lessening sentences for drug-related crimes. We are thankful for his activism on behalf of incarcerated people and legacy as a champion for human rights. jlusa.org/2024/12/29/r...
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Remembering Jimmy Carter for his record on criminal justice reform
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The “argument from anecdote” fallacy on full display. If the Post, Daily News, and even the NYT all run stories about people being shoved in front of subway trains, the whole city is suddenly terrified of riding on the subway… even if the numbers are actually down. The media are complicit.
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
In Alabama we have billboards advertising “Bama’s Best Bud.” Also, we have no-knock raids looking for marijuana that end with dead teenagers. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in AL, suit says
Officers left the teen bleeding out in the hallway for more than four minutes, body camera footage shows, according to the suit.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/12/2024
Federal executions were rare for decades, but Trump brought them back in his first term and plans to ramp them up in his second term. Here’s why it’s a big deal:
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Four Things to Know About the Federal Death Penalty
The cases of those on death row highlight deep concerns about racial disparities, the fairness of the process, and the inhumanity of the punishment.
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Red Mountain Images @2old4ts.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
For those don’t care - move along. For those who don’t understand, this is kind of a big deal. This can haunt people trying to right their wrongs for quite some time.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Somewhere out there, a kid who is alive because of the Covid vaccine exists. If Kennedy is confirmed, his younger siblings may not be so lucky.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The evidence is increasingly clear that for a wide swath of misdemeanor cases, having the case go forward has no impact on safety at best (while making lives worse) but quite often seems to make reoffending MORE likely. Are you outraged by THAT? Have you expressed THAT outrage?
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“The DOJ could have screened those 1500 commutations better.” Whatever the merits of that claim—and I have issues w it on the merits—a question for all those raising in: Have you ever expressed equal concern about inadequate screening of the 13,000,000+ misdemeanors cases filed each year?
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
One bad commutation produces ten thousand times the outrage of thousands of unnecessary incarcerations. If you are chiming in only now, ask yourself why you are demanding perfection here, but not on those we lock up in our sadistic prisons? Why does mercy anger you but cruelty does not?
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In 2006, when I was a reporter in Norwalk, CT, a coastal town in one of the richest counties in America, I got a tip that insurers were colluding to squeeze the owners of coastal mansions by jacking up premiums unless people got expensive hurricane shutters. I made a couple phone calls...
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David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
DOCs have thrown everything they can at this problem: increased salaries, different shift structures, sign-on and retention bonuses... None of it works. Unfortunately DOCs don't typically have a release mechanism at their disposal, so they "get who they get." We need legislatures to decarcerate.
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Why jails and prisons can’t recruit their way out of the understaffing crisis
Jails and prisons across the country have record-high vacancies, creating bad working conditions for corrections staff and nightmarish living conditions for incarcerated people. Why haven’t ...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10/12/2024
Private prison companies may not create aggressive immigration policies, but they’re the enablers and biggest financial beneficiaries of mass detention. We break down the perverse incentives driving the industry:
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What Trump’s Victory Means for the Private Prison Industry
The two largest companies that manage detention centers and correctional facilities are poised to profit from aggressive immigration policies.
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