The #ReformLAJails initiative will be on the California presidential primary March 3, 2020 ballot. Vote YES! #ReformLAJails #CancelMcCarthyContract
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15 hours ago#TBT In the middle of the California African American Museum for observers to explore stands a bedroom furnished only with a jail bed; waiting to be filled with artwork, love letters, birthday cards, stuffed animals, and crafts— with the many different forms of expression and connection that have come from people’s experiences as incarcerated. When policymakers speak about jail expansion they declare that “we are going to build a 2,000 bed facility”; it is always about the number of beds, and this language removes the humanity out of the decision making process. The entire #jailbeddrop series is about attaching people to these beds. @osopepatrisse and Cecila Sweet-Coll started this series. Learn more about how we are ensuring the humanity of those who are jailed and suffering from mental illness. Help us #ReformLAJails https://jailbeddrop.wordpress.com/
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Yesterday#ICYMI @theyoungturks shared our win to #cancelmccarthycontract! Link in bio for the full video. #ReformLAJails
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2 days agoOne week go today. #ReformLAjails #repost I will never forget the day we forced the County of Los Angeles to invest in care and not cages. This was a labor of love, community, justice, and solidarity. True power is always with the people. Onward and upward. #JusticeLA #freedom #dream #love #carenotcages #Wedidthat #TooProud #InSolidarity #Hope #Onward @ib2_real
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3 days agoLet’s get ready for 2020. Early voting starts in February! Are you registered to vote? #ReformLAJails In March, the roughly 5,000 traditional polling places will be replaced by a smaller number of multipurpose “vote centers,” many of which will open 10 days before election day. The centers will offer in-person voters more options. At at any of these roughly 1,000 locations scattered from Lancaster to Long Beach, voters can drop off absentee ballots, cast their vote on a newly designed ballot-marking device or update their registration. Eventually, all registered voters will receive their ballots by mail, and will be able to use them to vote by mail or in person. Link in bio! https://www.latimes.com/la-me-voting-ballot-dean-logan-los-angeles-county-20190609-story.html
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3 days ago#Repost @osopepatrisse This was me last Tuesday during the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting. @reformlajails and @justicelanow waiting for the supervisors to #cancelmccarthycontract We won!
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4 days ago“We need to do an entire reimagining of public safety. What we have lived under is that public safety is a gun, a badge, a courthouse, and a jail cell—that’s what keeps us safe. What I would argue is that is what provides disorganization and chaos. What keeps us safe is when people have access to their human rights and human needs; when people can go home and know they can see their children; when people have a job that provides a living wage. I think we need to be asking new questions about this moment and what safety actually looks like.” #ReformLAJails
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4 days ago“[The jail defeat] was historic because @countyofla is the largest jailer in the world, and so the fact that four out of five county board supervisors made the decision to cancel the contract, just a few months after they were going to move forward with the contract, is incredibly significant and really is a show of people power,” @osopepatrisse , founder and chairperson of Reform L.A. Jails and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, told BET.com. “It was more than just us protesting,” she added. “It was us having meetings with elected officials. It was us being able to organize healthcare providers. We had several people who worked inside jails who were either a nurse, or a physician, or a psychiatrist come and speak out and say this is not the ideal way to give anybody care. It really became a movement and that movement only happened with us organizing to get thousands of people in Los Angeles to say no to this.”
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5 days agoThis week the @CountyofLA voted to cancel the contract to build a multi-billion dollar correctional facility. Sign @ReformLAJails 's thank you card to the LA County Board of Supervisors for doing the right thing. Link in bio! #ReformLAJails #cancelmccarthycontract
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6 days agoThis week the @CountyofLA voted to cancel the contract to build a multi-billion dollar correctional facility. Sign @ReformLAJails 's thank you card to the LA County Board of Supervisors for doing the right thing. Link in bio! #ReformLAJails #cancelmccarthycontract
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1 weeks agoAfter months of a withering protest campaign led by iconic activist Patrisse Cullors, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to support a motion canceling its $1.7-billion prison construction contract with McCarthy Building Companies. From @blavity ! Link in bio. #reformlajails #cancelmccarthycontract https://www.blavity.com/mccarthy-contract-to-build-los-angeles-8th-prison-canceled-following-protests-led-by-black-lives-matter-co-founder
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1 weeks ago@nytimes Breaking National News! “Really what we have is people living their lives, a lot of them living on Skid Row, a cycle of poverty, a cycle of drug addiction and mental illness, and then we have jails,” said @osopepatrisse , chair of @reformlajails , a coalition of groups that has put forward a ballot initiative to change L.A.’s jail system, and a co-founder of @blklivesmatter “We don’t have an in-between infrastructure.” @hildasolis , a county supervisor, described @countyofla ’s new approach as, “care first, jail second.” @sheilakuehl , another supervisor who has pushed to replace jails with treatment, said at Tuesday’s meeting, to cheers from activists in the audience: “Incarceration is itself an experiment, and it’s an experiment that has failed. There are a lot of countries that have said, this is not the way to go.” “This issue around criminalizing mentally ill people is actually not just an L.A. issue,” said Ms. Cullors. “L.A. is the microcosm of what’s happening across the country. You can go to Cook County in Chicago. You can go to Rikers Island in New York.” She continued, “If Los Angeles gets this right and is able to build a model, this could be a blueprint for the rest of the country.” LINK in bio! We can’t stop now! ReformLAJails.com to join us an get ready to VOTE in March 2020! #CaringIsEasy #cancelmccarthycontract #reformlajails
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2 weeks agoThis week the @CountyofLA voted to cancel the contract to build a multi-billion dollar correctional facility. Sign @ReformLAJails 's thank you card to the LA County Board of Supervisors for doing the right thing: Link in bio! #CancelMcCarthyContract
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2 weeks agoOn Tuesday (August 13 ), the 3,885-bed facility, which was slated to house pretrial detainees with mental health and substance abuse issues, was scrapped in large part due to years of activism from prison reform groups and added to a growing nationwide trend of halting the expansion of mass incarceration in favor of investing in community-based treatment programs and other alternatives. Link in bio! #cancelmccarthycontract #reformlajails
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2 weeks ago@BernieSanders thank you so much for your early endorsement of this campaign and for your continued support. #ReformLAJails!
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2 weeks agoWe did it together. The contract to build LA County’s 8th jail has been cancelled. But this fight isn’t over. We still must continue dreaming of a different world where all of our families are treated with dignity. Follow @ReformLAJails to stay involved. #ReformLAJails
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2 weeks ago#ReformLAJails! Link to full article in bio.
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2 weeks agoWhen Gilbert Johnson, asks “everyone to raise their fist if you want to cancel this jail plan”. #CancelMcCarthyJails Photo courtesy of @YouthJusticeLA
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2 weeks agoWE DID IT! #cancelmccarthycontract #reformlajails
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2 weeks agoWe did it! The contract to build LA County’s 8th jail has been cancelled. But this fight isn’t over. We still must continue dreaming of a different world where all of our families are treated with dignity. Follow @ReformLAJails to stay involved. #ReformLAJails
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2 weeks agoVICTORY! #CancelMcCarthyContract is proof that people really do have the power in our democracy. Because of you, and all of the @ReformLAJails supporters, we are one step closer to fully embracing mental health treatment over incarceration.
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2 weeks agoBREAKING NEWS: Because we stood as one, LA Supervisors just cancelled the @McCarthyBuild contract to build another jail. This victory was only made possible because of the tireless & thankless work of @ReformLAJails 's volunteers and supporters. The contract to build LA County’s 8th jail has been cancelled. But this fight isn’t over. We still must continue dreaming of a different world where all of our families are treated with dignity. Follow @ReformLAJails to stay involved. #CancelMcCarthyContract
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2 weeks agoTo be a part of this process is surreal. I feel proud to be an Angelino today, and I want to thank everyone here. It’s not over, let’s keep going! @osopepatrisse explains why we need to #cancelmccarthycontract and #reformlajails
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2 weeks agoLA County Supervisor @hildasolis says #CancelMcCarthyContract! “We have to open up our hearts and minds...” #ReformLAJails #cancelmccarthycontract #CaringIsEasy
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2 weeks agoPeople suffering from mental illness should not be locked up in cages! They deserve true care through mental health facilities spread out across the city. #CancelMcCarthyContract #ReformLAJails #CaringIsEasy
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2 weeks agoWe need all of you there in person, but just in case you’re far away and can’t make it to our press conference and rally watch it live on our Facebook live! #JusticeLA #Repost #reformlajails
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2 weeks agoBe there at 9am today! #cancelmccarthycontract
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2 weeks agoJails are not the cure for our brothers and sisters suffering from mental illness. We agree with @jasonwinstongeorge WATCH! #CancelMcCarthyContract #CareNotCages
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2 weeks agoFact: We spend more money on incarceration than we do per pupil spending for education in Los Angeles County. We were glad to have @UTLANow Vice President Cecily Myart-Cruz speak truth at our #CancelMcCarthyContract rally last week.
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2 weeks agoActor and social justice activist @kendrick38 joined us last week for our #CancelMcCarthyContract rally. Hear why this issue is important to him:
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2 weeks agoWe know the people of LA County are on our side and the law is on our side regarding jail building contractor McCarthy. Hear why @ACLU_SoCal Legal Director Peter Eliasberg believes the McCarthy contract would be a "monument to failure." #CancelMcCarthyContract.
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2 weeks ago#ReformLAJails “For far too long, the criminal justice system has failed to address the root causes of crime by cycling offenders suffering from addiction and mental illness through the jail system. These underlying risk factors for recidivism are best dealt with by health care professionals, not by the jail system. By placing resources into better addressing the root causes of crime, we can take a humane and cost effective approach that can advance public safety for us all.” -San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón @sfda
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2 weeks agoCome see us @beautycon #beautycon #beautyconla (Booth 55 )! #reformlajails
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2 weeks agoCover of the @latimes print edition! Let’s do this! In a letter to supervisors this week, @osopepatrisse raised both policy and legal concerns in pressing the supervisors to change course. The argument focused on whether the county violated contracting rules by shifting around plans for the facility in recent months, opening itself to legal challenges. The group has previously succeeded in bringing attention to policing and jailing practices at the Sheriff’s Department, including placing a measure on the ballot next fall that would grant subpoena power to an outside panel overseeing the department. “Although California law requires a competitive bidding process for construction projects of this size, the board awarded this ... contract without receiving and comparing bids from multiple vendors,” said Cullors, a co-founder of the @blklivesmatter Movement. #reformlajails #cancelmccarthycontract Link in bio⬆️
