Massachusetts last year made phone calls from prison and jails free.
It also wiped charges for other forms of communication between incarcerated folks & their loved ones.
You can see how hugely important it is for people in this piece. 1/2
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More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.
Because if not, you will one day find yourself answering why you increased the police budget by $126M while cutting the Fire budget by$17.6M. It’s all about trade offs and weighing risks… and the economist (and backers) will be long gone when the fire storm hits. theintercept.com/2025/01/08/l...
The first paper from a years-long collaboration with an incredible mentor & co-author, @ktandrews.bsky.social! In it, we descriptively detail recent (complex) developments in college activism in the U.S. from 2017 to 2014, noting several instances that defy media & political discourse.
Despite policies that face recognition will just be a "jumping off point" and not evidence leading directly to arrest--people very easily proven innocent continue to be arrested and jailed after being misidentified by computers.
This has got to stop and more cities should be considering bans.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
The Gun Violence Data Hub's library of data has launched! 🚀📈 This is the project I've been working on since September.
It's looking great, and we hope it will enable journos and researchers around the country to do deeper work on guns and gun violence @thetrace.org
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The Gun Violence Data Hub, a project of The Trace, has launched a data library to further its mission of making information about gun violence accessible to local newsrooms and researchers. The librar...
Police have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with face recognition technology (FRT). It is too dangerous, invasive, and in the hands of law enforcement, a perpetual liability. E...
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The reform would eliminate the exorbitant charges people face to keep in touch with loved ones in jail and prison, removing a heavy financial burden for thousands.
ONLINE FIRST
In this open-access TSQ article, Kenneth Andrews and Khoi Ngo examine the scope, issues, and disruptiveness of campus protest in the United States from 2017 through 2024.
Read more at bit.ly/3O2spr7
The Sociological Quarterly
I’d love to be added please! Thank you for doing this!
