The Governor has been on a mission to limit bail access. This legislative session saw him pass some, but not all, of his agenda, reports Michelle Pitcher:
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-house-bail-legislature/
No, Chinese children don't work in factories.
No, China doesn't have slaves.
But you know who does have child-labor and legal slavery?
That's right: The United States of America. 
https://x.com/ShangguanJiewen/status/1929010011185050021
#racism #abolition #prison
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok
#usa #cdnpoli #canada
@blackmastodon #blacmastodon
#slavery #blackhistory @BLKNewsNow @blackvoices
The #prosecutions of #DavidMcBride, #RichardBoyle and Witness K make clear #public #servants face #prison for #exposing #government #crime and #corruption.
Still no charges in Robert Pickton prison death a year after fatal assault
Pickton died in hospital on May 31, 2024, after being assaulted at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison 12 days prior. The 74-year-old was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder but was suspected of killing dozens more women at his pig farm in Port C...
#crime #death #prison #PortCartier #PortCoquitlam #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/robert-pickton-death-1-year-1.7549140?cmp=rss
#JustStopOil cofounder #IndigoRumblelow sentenced to 2.5 years in #prison
But despite his tough rhetoric, #Trump has sparked controversy by pardoning a growing number of convicted #DrugDealers, including this week's move to grant clemency to Larry Hoover, 74, who was serving multiple life sentences in federal #prison for #crimes linked to his role leading the #Chicago-based #GangsterDisciples.
Thousands of #Americans are rotting in #prison for nonviolent #drug offenses while #Trump gave a pathetic, addicted manbaby the authority to tear down government services.
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X/Twitter Goes Down for Third Time In a Week, Just as Musk Drug Story Drops https://sfist.com/2025/05/30/x-twitter-goes-down-for-third-time-in-a-week-just-as-musk-drug-story-drops/
“This bill violates basic principles of due process, keeps poor people in jail for being poor, and hands prosecutors a veto over judicial decisions. Texas families deserve reforms rooted in evidence, fairness, and public safety instead of fear.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-house-bail-legislature/
#Binance founder Changpeng “#CZ” Zhao also pleaded #guilty, paid a $50M fine & was sentenced to 4 months in #prison.
In late April—a few wks before #USD1 began trading on Binance—Zhao applied for a #pardon from #Trump’s #DOJ.
On Thurs, the #SEC voluntarily dismissed its suit against Binance that accused it of failing to restrict high-net-worth individuals from the platform, misleading investors about trading controls & commingling funds that it routed to a 3rd party.
New from Michelle Pitcher: “Bills in this package are going to swell the Texas pretrial population. That’s going to impact counties first. Local jails, which are already having to send people out of county or out of state in order to keep their populations manageable are going to find they have an even worse problem on their hands.” https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-house-bail-legislature/
https://www.europesays.com/2118183/ Who is Larry Hoover? Does Trump’s commutation of his sentence set him free? | Crime News #courts #Crime #DonaldTrump #Explainer #Government #history #News #Politics #POTUS #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentTrump #prison #trump #UnitedStates #US&Canada
Fox was sentenced to 16yrs in #prison on conspiracy to #kidnap & #conspiracy to possess #weapons of mass destruction [#WMD] charges, while Croft was sentenced to 19yrs on the same 2 charges as Fox, plus a 3rd charge of knowingly possessing an unregistered destructive device.
As red states in the #UnitedStates slip further down the #SlipperySlope of #fascism in #USpol a recent #prison #escape could produce an #UltraMAGA #Republican challenger to Sarah Huckabee Sanders; Grant Hardin, aka the Devil of the Ozarks!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-police-chief-prison-escape_n_68368b5ae4b06a204c7ec743
Zum #AmnestyInternationalDay heute ein Lektüretipp aus dem #Heftarchiv:
»politische gefangene«, #WerkstattGeschichte 80/2019, im Thementeil (hg. v. Gabriele Metzler & Annelie Ramsbrock) Beiträge u.a. zu #Hungerstreiks Inhaftierter in der #WeimarerRepublik & in #Nordirland, zu Kommunisten in #Haft im #Franco-#Spanien u. zu #GeorgeJackson.
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/politische-gefangene/
It came just in the nick of time for Walczak, sparing him from having to pay nearly $4.4M in #restitution & from reporting to #prison for an 18-month sentence that had been handed down just 12 days earlier. The judge declared there “is not a get-out-of-jail-free card” for the #rich.
The #pardon, however, indicated otherwise. The case…is the latest example of #Trump’s willingness to use his #power to reward allies who advance his political causes, enrich him personally, & punish his enemies.
#law
As #PaulWalczak awaited sentencing early this year, his best hope for avoiding #prison time rested with the newly inaugurated president.
Mr. Walczak, a former nursing home exec who had pleaded #guilty to #tax #crimes days after the 2024 election, submitted a #pardon application to #Trump around Inauguration Day. The application focused not solely on Walczak’s offenses but also on the political activity of his mother, Elizabeth Fago.
Today in Labor History May 26, 1895: American photojournalist Dorothea Lange was born. She is best-known for her empathetic photographs of people during the Great Depression. However, she is also one of the first to document the suffering of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II.
Lange grew up poor, in New York’s Lower East Side. She was one of the only gentiles in her school, which was predominantly Jewish. As a young adult, she moved to San Francisco, where she began her career doing portraits for the wealthy. But as the depression began, she turned her camera to the streets, on hobo camps, refugees from Oklahoma, farmers, breadlines, the homeless, portraying the misery and desperation of the period, becoming one of the first photodocumentarians. 22 of her photographs were used in John Steinbeck’s 1936 journalistic series for the San Francisco news, The Harvest of Gypsies, and they served as an inspiration for the film version of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
Our top story: “Death row becomes what prison is supposed to be but often isn’t. Death row is a place of reformation, rehabilitation, and correction. Ironically the one place where it matters the least.” https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/
This is why billionaires do NOT belong in any #government. These #psychopaths will deny the #underprivileged any and all #avenues to #advance in life. #Criminal #felon #POTUS and the rest of the #corrupt #administration belong in #prison.
#USPolitics #HeadStart #opposeGOP #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #impeach #education #discrimination #children
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/05/19/the-real-world-costs-of-eliminating-head-start/
