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📍PGH 👁🗨 committed to transformative racial justice by keeping courts accountable thru observation, data collection + public reporting @abolitionistlc
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined February 2020
RT @nickwestes: Leonard Peltier is granted clemency! He’s out of prison and commuted to home confinement. This is a huge win for grassroots…
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📣 Statewide day of action this Monday, Feb. 3: Join the phone-in to help free an incarcerated elder! 📅Schedule 10 minutes on Mondays to make this call, and let us know how it goes! @AbolitionistLC
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Today we’re showing up for a PCRA hearing for Cris. Member of Philly ParDef, Cris has been incarcerated for 22 years & now will have new evidence to present in court #letswatchcourt
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Our NYE Letter Writing Campaign is still going strong! We've sent over 200 letters out to 70 incarcerated children & adolesencts this winter season. @CareNotControl is joining in with a letter writing session in Philly tomorrow! Come join us! Details below...
Join us with @ALCCourtWatch this Friday @ Ubuntu in Germantown to write letters to youth incarcerated across PA. Let's let them know that we will not let them be disappeared by the criminal legal system; there is hope for their future! 📆 Friday, January 24th @ 5pm #FreeOurYouth
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Come & see what court watch looks like in 2025! We're on live:
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Join us on MLK day to learn how court watch is making an impact across the country! We're teaming up with court watch programs from different cities to host this event. Click here to register! ↪️
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It's coming! We're having a national court watch session to share resources, talk about developments and encourage others to join our movement! Let's hold the courts accountable--together. #letscourtwatch
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Free Marie Scott! Thurs, Jan 9 this week from 6-8pm we're coming together w/friends & allies statewide. We'll be in PGH & Philly spaces, as well as online, to write letters to for Marie's commutation! @vivamarilynbuck @phillyHRC @cadbiwest Join us:
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Decertification is the motion filed by the adolescent and their defense, that asks the courts to move their case “back” from the adult criminal legal system to the juvenile system. Learn more at our upcoming INFO session on youth proceedings next Thursday:
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What we have seen is several decertifications happening with a far greater success rate than seen in the years we've been following them! When youths are decertified, the leave the adult criminal legal system entirely--including the adult jail, adult EHM, and adult courts.
Through our court watch efforts, we’ve been able to track the cases of many youth ensnared at the ACJ. Today, the juvenile jail population has dropped to just 18—one of the lowest in over a year!
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"Countless people in prison (& jail) need to go home." @PrisonPolicy
#Decarcerate
#FreeThemAll
#LetsWatchCourt
Most charges are politically motivated. Arresting & detaining people in poverty, people w/ mental health and/or drug use disorders, unhoused people, people who can't pay probation fees, and people of color--it's a political choice to perpetuate mass incarceration. #FreeThemAll
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@NickRankin10 Not so.... ACJ incarcerated children & adolescents before Shuman shut down & will continue to. Schuman does not contain beds for the youths directly filed as adults so, the fact that Shuman re-opened has no direct impact on, nor does it provide relief for ACJ's youth population.
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In Allegheny County, the Interest of Justice (IOJ) proceeding asks the court if it is in the "interest of justice" for the youth (under age 18) to remain incarcerated at Allegheny County Jail (ACJ). *These IOJ's play out differently in the Philly courts.
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In Allegheny County, another child/adolescent was granted decertification today in Judge Beemer's court room. That makes 5 since August. This is good. #LetsWatchCourt
@CareNotControl @YASP2
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@BukitBF But now we have a new bit of information—that private hearings are happening in the Pittsburgh Municipal Courts. Join us:
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One court watcher notes, “this is suspect.” Another remarks, “well, they’re not going to make it easy.” And they don’t. There are definitely moments where their resistance to our presence is clear.
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