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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · about 1 hour ago

"Voters approved Amendment 3." "Virginia voters have toppled one of the nation's harshest felony disenfranchisement schemes, ending a Jim Crow-era policy of exclusion that has blocked millions of people from voting since 1902." #Virginia #USA #Voting #Apartheid #Incarceration #Courts

boltsmag.org

Virginia Topples Its Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting

Voters passed Amendment 3 on Tuesday, restoring voting rights for people with felony convictions upon release, and codifying the end of Jim Crow-era disenfranchisement rules.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · about 7 hours ago

"As of now, I'm just lost in the system." "The Marshall Project spoke to three men who have waited for months at the Raymond Detention Center without formal charges [...] after they were arrested for nonviolent offenses." #Mississippi #USA #Incarceration #Courts #Bail #Healthcare

www.themarshallproject.org

'Lost in the System': What It's Like to Be Stuck for Months in a Mississippi Jail

Getting arrested in Hinds County leaves some people sitting in jail for months or years with their cases in limbo, waiting for formal charges.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1 day ago

"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a reporter that it would be a 'waste of our time' to investigate ICE's recent purchase of a prison from a private company for hundreds of millions of dollars over a prior asking price." #Minnesota #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

truthout.org

Bessent: "Waste of Our Time" to Probe ICE's Strange $500M Prison Purchase

An investigation found ICE recently paid half a billion dollars for a Minnesota prison offered in 2025 for $75 million.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"[F]ootage shows Romero aggressively tailgating Irvine's Volkswagen Golf before pulling alongside it and firing a shot." "Romero was a narcotics detective with the New York Police Department." "[P]referential treatment from the justice system." #NewYork #USA #Policing #Bail #Incarceration #Courts

www.leftvoice.org

Former NYPD Detective Killed Koran Irvine, and Remains Free on $1 Million Bail

Victor Romero, a retired NYPD detective, fatally shot Koran Irvine on the George Washington Bridge in New York City. He faces a second-degree murder charge but remains free on $1 million bail.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"In Virginia next week, democracy is literally on the ballot for people with felony convictions." "If [it] passes, it would leave Mississippi as the state where people with felony convictions face the most [...] restrictions." #Mississippi #Virginia #USA #Incarceration #Voting #Apartheid #Slavery

www.themarshallproject.org

Virginia May Automatically Restore Voting Rights After Prison. What About Mississippi?

Virginia voters will decide whether to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. Some advocates in Mississippi are watching closely.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain." "My body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts." "And the pain isn't just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul." #Tennessee #USA #Courts #Incarceration #Solitary #DeathPenalty

truthout.org

After Surviving Botched Execution, Christa Pike Speaks Out

"There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain," Pike said Friday.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"We want to hug our moms." "The newly passed law will make it a right for all youth in juvenile detention centers to hug their parents." "[T]heir longer struggle: shutting down dangerous facilities like Los Padrinos, and decarcerating youth." #California #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Torture

truthout.org

Incarcerated Los Angeles Youth Fought for the Right to Hug Their Parents — and Won

Having enshrined youths' right to hug parents during visits behind bars, activists are pushing for decarceration.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"[S]tunt by 30 masked dudes [...] using racism and the rhetoric of denialism to change the conversation." "[R]esidential school denialists [...] have two main goals: to 'monetize ignorance' and to gain public attention." #Ontario #BritishColumbia #Canada #Education #Incarceration #Genocide

truthout.org

Masked White Supremacists Are Stoking Residential School Denialism in Canada

"We have endured fear, and we will not be intimidated," one Indigenous leader said.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"[H]e was already brain dead." "So the deputies pulled out an ink pad, grabbed Greer's limp hand, pressed his thumb on the ink and then onto the signature line of the release form." "Greer was pronounced dead the next day." #Texas #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare #Policing

boltsmag.org

In Texas, Jailers Rush to Release Dying People to Evade Scrutiny

Deputies in Tarrant County put the thumbprint of a man who was brain dead on his release form, highlighting how jails scramble to keep deaths from being investigated. His family, organizers, and a local commissioner want answers.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"[I]nvestigation traced more than $12 million in combined political spending linked to CoreCivic, Palantir, GEO Group, NANA Regional Corp. and CSI Aviation – some of the companies that have profited most from ICE." #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Voting #Lobbying #Incarceration #Technology

theemancipator.org

Investigation: ICE's Favorite Companies Pumped More Than $12 Million In Political Dollars to Tip the Scale of the Midterms

An investigation by The Emancipator found contributions linked to CoreCivic, Palantir, GEO Group, NANA Regional Corp. and CSI Aviation – companies that profited most from the Trump administration's ICE crackdowns.

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