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Please watch the trailer, re-post and be prepared
#Alabama
#CarceralState
#CarceralCapitalism
#PrisonIndustrialComplex
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jlusa.org JustLeadershipUSA @jlusa.org · Feb 7
“‘The Alabama Solution’ documentary ‘should outrage the nation’ ... One of the most shocking, visceral depictions of our carceral state ever put to film.”

Read more: jlusa.org/2025/02/07...
February 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
democracyatwork.bsky.social
#CarceralCapitalism
January 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
robinmbernstein.bsky.social
Forced factory labor plus sleep deprivation: a potentially lethal combination. #CarceralCapitalism #prisons
shannonheffernan.bsky.social Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · Dec 12
One thing I never thought about until doing this story: How bad sleep in jail leads to poor legal outcomes. People are so tired they have trouble participating in their defense & lawyers say some clients are so exhausted they take plea deals they might have otherwise avoided.
tinyurl.com/47eun36u
‘Sleep Don’t Come’: The Dangerous Problem of Sleep Deprivation Behind Bars
Moldy mattresses, 24/7 lights and constant noise contribute to a persistent health and safety crisis in prisons and jails.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:47 PM
democracyatwork.bsky.social
What is the connection between #prisons and #capitalism? @profwolff.bsky.social speaks more on this on #EconomicUpdate on our #youtube channel! #carceralcapitalism #classwar #economics #poverty #exploitation #labor #abolition #racialcapitalism #democracy #democracyatwork
February 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
sashmarguerite.bsky.social
I’m in the midst of reading Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang #BookSky #NonfictionBooks #CarceralCapitalism
Sasha’s legs propped up on a desk and she’s holding an open book.
August 30, 2026 at 3:30 AM
richardhull54.bsky.social
#CarceralCapitalism
#Incarceration
#Prisons
richardhull54.bsky.social Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · Jun 4
#ICE relies heavily on #Private Detention Centers.

From @adamtooze.bsky.social latest newsletter:
adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...
[Adfam Tooze's text] In the US prison system as a whole it is easy to exaggerate the importance of privately owned prisons, but for ICE’s immigration crackdown, private detention facilities are key: [Bloomberg text] Map shows locations of ICE facilities by type of owner and average population: Private, Public, Population - 100, 1,500, 2,000 The map hows that nearly all the large (more than 100 population) facilities are private - that is nearly fifty facilities. Only one large facility is public. It is Florida. Louisiana has a disproportionaly high number of large facilities (nine) and Texas has 13. Source: Bloomberg Businessweek analysis of ICE Detention Statistics. Note: Average poulation calculated from March 17 to March 31st, 2025. Bloomberg Businessweek calculated biweekly averages of the number of people held at detention facilities using each facility's fiscal-year averages, which are released every two weeks by ICE.
June 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
richardhull54.bsky.social
Excellent report. 4 years for #NonviolentProtest. HMP Bronzefield is a #PrivatePrison, part of #CarceralCapitalism.
It is disgusting that shareholders should profit from people's incarceration.
#PrisonIndustrialComplex
@defendourjuries.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary
I was one of a group of Just Stop Oil activists given the longest-ever UK sentences for peaceful protest after blocking a motorway. Six months into my incarceration, this is what I have learned
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
rtronblue.bsky.social
Incarcerated people generate over **$11 billion** in goods and services each year—often for just pennies an hour. This isn’t rehabilitation. It’s exploitation.

Prison labor is modern-day slavery.

#AbolishSlavery #PrisonLabor #13thAmendment #ReimaginingTheRevolution #CarceralCapitalism
May 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
richardhull54.bsky.social
#CarceralCapitalism #PrisonIndustrialComplex eyeing "bonanza" - and I'm not giving a link to the paywalled stinking #Murdoch WSJ, and instead the first part is in the #Alt-Text
Picture of a prison with the headline "America's Private Prison Complex Gears Up for Trump Deportation Bonanza." The first part of the article reads: Private prisons and other companies that provide detention services are getting ready to cash in on what President-elect Donald Trump has billed as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” That includes scouring for as many detention beds as possible in their networks of facilities, and scouting sites for new buildings to house migrants. Some executives are considering whether to take up the controversial work of detaining families or unaccompanied children. Others are preparing to hire new staff and snapping up well-connected lobbyists. “This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” George Zoley, executive chairman of the GEO Group, a private prison company, told investors on an earnings call days after the election. Pulling off a deportation on the scale Trump has promised would constitute an unprecedented logistical feat for the U.S. government, involving identifying, locating, arresting, detaining, adjudicating and transporting potentially millions of men, women, and children. The actual scope of Trump’s plans remains unclear. He repeatedly promised mass deportations during his first term in office. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported about 935,000 people who had been living in the U.S. illegally under his administration, according to an analysis by the Migration Policy Institute—fewer per year than during the presidency of Barack Obama. The Biden administration, which deported relatively few people in its first year, deported more than 271,000 in fiscal year 2024—the most in 10 years—according to newly released figures from ICE. The administration deported some 545,000 over its four years.
January 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
marxistdad.bsky.social
United in congratulating yourselves for copying what passes for justice in the fascist USA? The rich (liars … per Carney) economic & political ruling class creates decades of economic decay & crisis—then punishes & institutionalizes the victims of the economy it destroyed.

#CarceralCapitalism

*md*
mark-carney.bsky.social Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · Jan 31
As First Ministers met this week, we were united in calling on Parliament to pass C-14, our new Bail and Sentencing Reform Act, quickly.

Our new government tabled this bill to keep repeat and violent offenders out of our communities — and the sooner it passes, the better.
Photo of Prime Minister Carney and the Premiers of Canada’s provinces and territories together at the First Ministers’ Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario.
February 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
nonpareil.bsky.social
#AI #LLMs #MachineLearning

#PlantationLogics
#RacialCapitalism
#CarceralCapitalism

#BLM #ImaginingAbolition

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davedisasterman.bsky.social DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · Jul 20
This has been a problem with machine learning models long before LLMs. (Cf. ShotSpotter or the use of ML in probation)

They can only be trained on the data we have, which is riddled with institutional racism, creating an entirely tautological justification for continued racism.
breachmedia.ca The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Jul 17
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security.

An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
July 21, 2026 at 11:55 PM
discodiscourse.bsky.social
#CarceralCapitalism
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Jan 29
Blockbuster story from AP – prison labor powers the biggest brands in the U.S. food business and fast food chains. Target, Walmart, Aldi, Burger King are involved and many more. Two years of reporting by the Pulitzer-winning team of Robin McDowell and Margie Mason.
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal fl...
apnews.com
January 29, 2024 at 9:12 PM
devinps.bsky.social
#christiantheology #redemption #debt #debtcancellation #jubilee #theology #capitalism #lending #predatorylending #carcerality #carceralcapitalism #politicaltheology #religionandpolitics
March 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
marxistdad.bsky.social
After Davos & Carney’s own confession👆🏻this picture is clear. The rich Canadian ruling class created decades of immiseration while profiting & lying about it—then congratulates itself for punishing & institutionalizing the victims of the economy they gutted.
#CompradorCarney #CarceralCapitalism

*MD*
February 1, 2026 at 1:49 AM