Data, research, and advocacy on pay-to-stay, politics, and government finances | 🪙⚖️💰 Co-Founded by @curlyprofessor @aprilfernandes @gabrielamkirk1
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12 Apr 2024
📢 New case study “Pay-to-Stay as Stategraft” published in Wisconsin Law Review is out today! Led by @gabrielamkirk1 It’s open-access and documents this practice, its harms, and legal challenges for legal scholars, legal aid advocates, and lawmakers.
wlr.law.wisc.edu/pay-to-stay…
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7 Feb 2025
We detail the challenges faced by incarcerated individuals with disabilities in navigating this system and how legal actors wage war to facilitate perpetual indebtedness to the state.
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7 Feb 2025
📢Our new article @CaptiveMoneyLab introduces the theoretical concept of "civil lawfare" based on our analysis of AG led pay-to-stay lawsuits against incarcerated people, particularly those with disabilities. *If need be, please reach out to us for a copy.
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27 May 2024
In a world where funding tells you everything you need to know about priorities, Eric Adams defunded NYC public libraries by $26 million in 2023 as New York City spent $29 million a day on cops.
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26 May 2024
Holding a ceremony to congratulate a child for overcoming the violence they inflicted on him and his family is perverse.
Debt is one of the leading causes of psychological distress in America.
25 May 2024
A Missouri school district is honoring a fifth grader who raised enough money to pay off all of his school’s student lunch debt – $7,300
The Blue Springs School District has over $150,000 worth of school lunch debt wbaltv.com/article/blue-spri…
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25 May 2024
Children being in food debt to the school they’re legally required to be in is insane.
25 May 2024
A Missouri school district is honoring a fifth grader who raised enough money to pay off all of his school’s student lunch debt – $7,300
The Blue Springs School District has over $150,000 worth of school lunch debt wbaltv.com/article/blue-spri…
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So far, 6 Clayton County Jail detainees have died this year, more than in all of 2023. One man, Eric Lee, was held on a $1500 bond on a shoplifting charge. He only had 25 cents for a $3.29 coffee. A report from the sheriff's office states he was homeless.
23 May 2024
Less than five months into 2024, deaths at the Clayton County Jail in the Atlanta suburbs have already surpassed last year’s total. The local sheriff’s lack of transparency has only compounded the pain for grieving families. @elizabethweill reports: theappeal.org/clayton-county…
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21 May 2024
Lawsuit filed in Iowa by civil rights groups to block sheriff extracting money from people being released from jail
publicjustice.net/lawsuit-fi…
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21 May 2024
Today, Congress held a hearing about prison labor’s legacy in chattel slavery. Witnesses gave well-researched testimony about the history and realities of prison slavery.
But Sen. Kennedy wants us to stop the “emotion” when talking about the “complex” issue of ending slavery.
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17 May 2024
Police broke his leg then offered him a SILLY plea deal. Thabo lost 6 figures fighting that shit on principle alone. Only reason he beat the charge was he had money, a witness AND videotape. Sorry to that golfer but that ain't even top 5 in athletes v. police.
NYPD broke an NBA player’s leg
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13 May 2024
A reminder during National Police Week:
Policing criminal law violations costs taxpayers more than $63 billion each year.
Money that would be better spent on care – not cops.
Learn more key facts about policing 👇
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11 May 2024
The nexus of pay to stay and prison labor creates a cycle of extraction and forced indebtedness designed to enslave incarcerated people, their loved ones, and any communities they call home. #moderndayslavery
11 May 2024
Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year.
A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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11 May 2024
Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year.
A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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24 May 2021
Few are familiar with the prison industry and fewer know the extent of its greed. This invisibility has protected it and its exploitative practices. That ends now. A year delayed due to COVID-19, today my TED Talk is out!
Thank you @TEDTalks @TEDFellow go.ted.com/biancatylek
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9 May 2024
Today’s @ABFResearch symposium was so rewarding. Caught up with my people @KarinMartinPhD @robinbartram1 @sarahlageson and forged new community & practitioner connections to share our research with @CaptiveMoneyLab Thank you @mjburnett & Becky Sandefur for this community!
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7 May 2024
Looking forward to heading to Detroit tomorrow and presenting the latest research from @CaptiveMoneyLab on prison pay to stay and our analysis of state efforts to repeal these harmful, extractive laws.
2 May 2024
One week from today! ⏰ On 5/8, ABF's Access to Justice Research Initiative and @_WayneLaw will host "Emerging Insights"—bringing together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine #AccesstoJustice research and translate ideas into action.
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ALT "Emerging Insights from Access to Justice Research: Translating Ideas into Action" / On May 8, join the American Bar Foundation at Wayne State University for an opportunity to critically examine how empirical research might provide answers to the access to civil justice crisis.
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6 May 2024
As we approach the 70th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, check out our latest app that lets you explore 30 years' worth of data on segregation, courtesy of an academic supergroup of researchers from USC and Stanford 👇
6 May 2024
đź’«Today we launch the Segregation Explorer!đź’«
Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991.
edopportunity.org/segregatio…
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4 May 2024
THREAD. Last night, the White House quietly sent out a press release notifying reporters that Biden would be seeking $37 billion for, among other things, 100,000 new cops. This is one of the most dangerous developments imaginable.
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4 May 2024
When we investigated Florida back in 2019 we found that legal appeals challenging this practice were denied because judges claimed FL pay to stay law is designed to charge money based on one’s original sentence despite early release given criminal contact inconveniences the state
27 Apr 2024
A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.
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27 Apr 2024
A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.
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26 Apr 2024
A jury has awarded $16 million to a Philadelphia man whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 25 years on death row and in solitary confinement. It is the largest wrongful conviction payout in city history. inquirer.com/crime/jimmy-den…
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