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prison-hater, bookworm, public defender. “if you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” views are my own. free palestine.
Cincinnati, OH
Joined August 2019
respectfully, if i haven’t heard a peep out of you about palestine i’m not interested in anything else you’ve got going on.
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Marcellus Williams wrote this poem as he stared down his own unconscionable murder. these two struggles are the same.
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reading We Do This Til We Free Us and i am astounded to read the sentence “About 70% of prisoners in California are former foster care youth”. i had to read it three times to be sure i’d read it correctly.
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we hear a lot about violent crime in the news but i would like to discuss the violence that manifests as not sheltering a huge population of unhoused people during a killer winter storm.
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i never said i went to law school to get only “innocent” people out of prison. i said people.
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reminder that the supreme court says that ACTUAL INNOCENCE is not enough to overturn a death sentence. if you were wondering where you and the government stand.
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if anyone was losing their faith in humanity today: i just watched a man experiencing homelessness collapse on the street and at by least five cars stopped to run and help, street folks stopped to help, they worked together to do chest compressions for at least 10 minutes….
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highly recommend having a conversation with people before you decide what their values are, because i’ve met old white midwestern bikers with extremely progressive ideals and coastal liberals who think homelessness is a preference.
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i went to law school because i wanted to get people out of prison. i wrote that on a post-it note before i started 1L year and that post-it is stuck at my desk in the same place as i enter my last semester. i promised myself that i would dedicate my heart to this cause. 1/.
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people in America will freeze to death this weekend because our local, state, and federal governments refuse to invest in meaningful affordable housing.
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i, and i cannot stress this enough, love these people. i love them.
Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.
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can’t imagine knowing what i know about prisons, having seen my loved ones disappeared into prisons, and drawing some line in the sand about which of them “deserves” to be there. please 🙄.
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whether or not incarcerated people deserve a stimulus check is not a subject i’ll be debating. go see how much a phonecall to your family costs in prison and think again.
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did you know that you support your local public libraries just by checking out materials? circulation numbers help libraries get and maintain funding! go check out a book and support a vital public institution for free! and you get a book!.
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until medics arrived and then they waited even longer until he was finally revived to a full round of applause. when i left they were all sitting in a circle on the ground talking with him. people are good.
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attended bail hearings the other day and most of what i saw was people losing their jobs or hemorrhaging the little money they have over things that are not an actual threat to community safety.
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HOWEVER, none of them (including myself who was out for a quick dog walk) had narcan. i will never so much as walk outside without it again. carry narcan everywhere.
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public defenders are real attorneys.public defenders are real attorneys .public defenders are real attorneys.
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good example of how dems turn to the center pulls everything to the right: we are now arguing about who will allow more fracking, a practice that is unfathomably destructive for our environment.
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incarcerated people who file pro se civil suits against prisons while in those prisons have to be some of the bravest and most driven people we have in this country.
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thinking about how like 10 years ago my friend bought a house and there was a room infested with raccoons and he just shut the door and called it the raccoon room.
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people becoming prosecutors because “being a public defender is too hard!” should tell you everything you need to know.
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@nwmalinowski unreal. we need more conversations about the violence perpetrated on kids by the system.
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grab your copy of #WeDoThisTilWeFreeUs from @haymarketbooks - i could not recommend it more. a welcoming introduction to abolition and to @prisonculture.
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it has been the greatest honor to be an integral part of this effort and to work with the brilliant and dedicated attorneys and my good friend and OIP partner @mirandarae_l . this is what it’s all about. 5/5.
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and on that note: you can't hurt someone by narcan-ing them by mistake! if you narcan someone who is not overdosing, they'll be fine! if they are overdosing, you may have just saved their life. low risk, high reward.
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“where are we gonna put violent people” i don’t know, in political office? in a police uniform? in a execution chamber with their finger on the switch? on a horse with a whip at the border? at the ballot box voting against human rights? in the military? on the supreme court?.
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yesterday he was granted a new trial. after all this time and pain and lies he has finally found truth, justice, and ultimately, freedom. we expect him home soon. 4/.
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all formerly incarcerated people, parolees, and currently incarcerated people should have the right to vote. period.
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been keeping this close for a minute but i am really, extremely, wildly honored and excited to announce that i will be starting my post-grad career as a public defender. what an amazing class of great and passionate litigators to be joining.
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yesterday i attended a hearing on a motion for new trial for a man who is innocent, who has been incarcerated for 13 years. it was the first case i looked at when i started at the Ohio Innocence Project in summer of 2021. i worked the case through my year at OIP… 2/.
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i think people who have never financially struggled can’t understand the violence that debt is.
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you’re either anti-death penalty or you’re not, it has nothing to do with the individual in question and everything to do with you.
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this is breakfast and dinner today at Alvis House, a halfway house for men in Chillicothe, Ohio. this and cold showers is Alvis House’s recipe for success for returning citizens.
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i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: you cannot blame unhoused people for doing things in public. there is no “private.”.
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the argument is not “these people don’t deserve to be executed” (although that is true as well) the argument is the state does not deserve to execute people, and when it does, it injures us all.
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just to clarify, i am not 100% sure that it was an overdose situation/what the issue was. but enough people thought it could be that people in cars were pulling over to ransack their trunks looking for narcan.
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and then was, coincidentally, hired at the same firm that OIP brought on as co-counsel for this case. i continued to work it. my partner at OIP and i had found critical undisclosed evidence. i knew in summer of 2021 that this man, who had become our friend, had to come home. 3/.
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we need a day that acknowledges innocent people who plead guilty due to the collateral costs of the criminal justice system. they are also wrongfully convicted by the system.
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someone asked me how i can have survived and been proximate to so much violent crime and still be a prison abolitionist. those parts of my story make abolition easier. i have watched systems fail to prevent and address harm, and people i love have been harmed and killed.
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my mom said to me recently that this year has brought her fully onboard with defunding the police (“entirely”), and that she’s been imagining the ways in which communities could take care of each other and keep each other safe without police.
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truly cannot believe steve chabot lost. this is a moment i have been waiting for since i was an actual kid.
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i passed the bar! i’m full of relief and so happy that period of my life is finally over.
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@hilaryagro i read your tweet and i still watched it and now i need to scrub all of the skin off my body.
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i am reminded once again today that incarceration punishes families and communities, not just the individual.
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if only we all had the power to pardon the people that we love whose lives are forever made harder by an unfair justice system.
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anyone who thinks cops are the answer to creating safer communities should go down to the courthouse and see how many cops are sitting around every day waiting for cases to finish that never needed to be in court/were resolved in the community 3 months before the court date.
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me: i’m going to be a public defender 😎.them: that’s great to start out, what do you want to do eventually?.me: ….
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i have been out here four hours finding people sleeping on the street and offering them warm stuff while telling them about the shelters. i need people to know what i know: when we get in our warm beds tonight there will be people sleeping on the sidewalk.
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@finchard87 *Rader. and he probably is, solitary confinement is extremely cruel. isn’t it funny how in the, name of vengeance, we can become as monstrous as the people we seek to punish? and we call that humanity and justice.
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**still employed**.
WATCH: Cincinnati officer Michael Roetting sued after shocking innocent woman with Taser while she was handcuffed to the wall. NOTE: Brooks could not be "actively resisting arrest" because she was already fully in custody:.
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people come at me like “what about serial killers” like i haven’t been thinking about this for a decade 😂 oh you got me there pal! never thought of that one!.
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1. parks are literally for loitering.2. we know what this means and it’s repulsive
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they are trying to build another #CopCity in Columbus, Ohio.
Diabolical. State lawmakers in Ohio are using the police murder of Ta'Kiya Young & her unborn child as a reason to fund & build Cop City in Ohio. They say it's a "training facility", we say #StopCopCity in Ohio. From ATL to B-More to #KKKolumbus, @kamaufranklin tried to warn us.
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@clarissas42 @PAnticapitalist @chick_in_kiev clarissa really did explain it all. but seriously i wish i could get this thorough of a summary for every tweet backstory i don’t know.
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where did the idea that we're not supposed to criticize our elected officials come from? the bar should be impossibly high. that's the job.
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adverse possession ftw.
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the “but not guilty people” construction relies on the myth that the justice system works perfectly from crime to conviction and sentencing, which is disproven by the many innocence cases but also by your everyday constitutional violations etc 1/.
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today i watched an innocent man walk into his freedom after 15 years locked up. nothing could have prepared me for this feeling, for hugging him and his family, for all of it. best day ever.
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lighting a candle for Marcellus Williams tonight as he is murdered by the state; a man who all parties seem to agree is innocent. while we mourn Mr. Williams we must also mourn our own humanity. in this moment the criminal legal system is unmasked and horrific.
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it is wrongful conviction day and in honor of this day i want to say that however many people you think are wrongfully convicted, it’s way more than that.
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@JLU_2016 it’s discussed in a variety of places: Scalia’s concurrence in Kansas v Marsh and his dissent in In re Davis, Rehnquist in Herrera i think….
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i’d like to call Cincinnati’s attention to the county prosecutor race, where a dem took the position after decades of republican rule. the incumbent has spent the last year fearmongering about crime and lambasting judges for affordable bonds. i hope this is the dawn of a new day.
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is cincinnati local news even reporting on the air quality? people keep asking me what it’s from, no one’s seen any reporting on it. or are we just talking about taylor swift this week?.
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misdemeanor court is rooted in the state’s massive and emotional overreaction to the natural outcomes of poverty and, frankly, of simply living in a society.
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tomorrow i start working for the ohio innocence project and i am so excited to do this work, and so excited to learn more about post-conviction litigation so that someday i can make my job about freedom, period.
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"I'm scared, ” Nicole Brown told her mother a few months before she was killed. “I go to the gas station, hes there. I go to the Payless Shoe Store, and he’s there. I’m driving, and he’s behind me. ”".
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if you think prison abolition sounds impossible let me give you two other things that sound impossible but aren’t:. juvenile lifers. prison hospice.
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i now have a dedicated couple of classmates who attend abolitionist events with me and read abolitionist texts with me- it’s almost like we’ve created an extra curriculum to parallel our law curriculum. it’s keeping me sane.
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my (deeply conservative) dad has been reading the books about incarceration that i have recommended and has even found and purchased others- now we’re having discussions about human rights violations in prisons. never thought i could bring him along.
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diane is a prime example of a current global trend. in the grand scheme of things, “crime” is down. but messaging on crime is up. and when people are afraid, they often lean into authoritarian, even fascist beliefs. we’re seeing this all over the world right now.
I’d rather live in a society where those who don’t comply sometimes get shot but no criminal gets away from cops than one where criminals are empowered to simply run away because they know the cops can’t chase them and are afraid to use force (like in SF).
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there will be absolutely zero tolerance for the use of the word “illegals” from me. human beings cannot be illegal and their existence should not be criminalized either in language or in law. this goes for unhoused people and for noncitizens.
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i’ll be honest, i have my doubts as to whether increased restrictions on guns will actually stop gun violence. my assumption is that they will do what they always do, and send more people to prison who never would commit a mass shooting.
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these police murders happen like 3x a day, but they’re not the most common tactic. more common are the racist stops, the rough arrests, the lies, the imprisonment. so many people are locked up off of police lies. there is more than one way to rob someone of their life.
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my (vaxxed) grandfather has covid because the staff in his *nursing home* refused to get vaccinated. he’s bedridden and we’re not wealthy, we didn’t have any other options. he was a sitting duck for this shit because his nurses wouldn’t get vaxxed. i’ve never been so angry.
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talking about how T*te is just so unbelievably famous right now and someone said “i feel bad for 13 year old boys right now” basically because they’re inundated by this, and i do, too. but i feel very bad for 13 year old girls right now. must be terrifying.
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in response to the letters from OTR business owners and new residents, i would simply like to say that if you do not like a community i don’t know why you forced your way into it and then demanded the original residents leave.
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blaming us (the people) for making police “jumpy” is such a classic victim-blaming tactic. it’s every bad ex boyfriend going “why did you make me do that??”.
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it does say a lot that no one bats an eye when men don’t have/want kids, but if you’re a woman it’s like a crime against humanity.
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i am a first gen college student, child of a hard-working amazing single mom, and tbh there was a point in my life when i thought i wouldn’t make it to 26. and i just finished my first semester of law school 🥳.
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please read this story. the reality is that incarceration is not about “good” or “bad” people. that’s not even really how people work. it’s about what incarceration is and what it does to people, regardless of who they are when they enter. Keri captures this beautifully here.
I just found out one of my sources got killed. I'm sad, but I'm not gonna wax poetic about how he was a good guy. I’m not sure he was. But he was a great example of how broken the system is. And he did a lot to help expose that even without knowing it. THREAD:
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absolutely disgusting reaction. i could go on about how this person doesn’t understand gerrymandering, or how a water table works, or the myriad failures of the democratic party to reach the midwest, but i don’t need to. all i need to point out is the lack of empathy.
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police all over this country will commit more brutality tonight, tomorrow, and beyond.
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yo f**k this guy.
@GeoffRBennett Video: Jeff Bezos thanks Amazon employees and customers for paying for his trip to space.
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tomorrow i find out if i passed the bar exam. please don’t tell me that you “know i did!” as sweet as that sentiment is. this dumb test beats smart and capable people all the time. it’s okay if i didn’t. it’ll be tough, but okay. i’m full of overwhelming feelings right now. 1/.
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please note that the same railroad corporation at the center of the East Palestine climate disaster is funding Cop City in Atlanta.
who’s funding Cop City? big Atlanta corporations
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I don’t think it should really shock people that there are so many innocent people in prison. Beyond the “actually innocent” people who had nothing to do with an event, there are also the people who plea to something they didn’t do (sometimes less serious, sometimes more)….
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is this journalism? it paints developers as addiction experts and features multiple pictures of people it calls “homeless” but does not interview a single unhoused person or even a nonprofit that actually works with unhoused people… embarrassing.
While the southern portion of downtown’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood features unique boutiques, sidewalk cafes, celebrated restaurants and yoga in the park, life is very different just a few blocks north.
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