11 Dec 2023
Today's the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
The 1st time the international community agreed on a set of common values
Rights are inherent to every single human being *without* exception
The registry #shadowprisons are #humanrights abuses
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13 May 2023
Illinois prisons are #shadowprisons BD
11 May 2023
Important note: Last session, the legislature couldn't even pass a bill giving themselves the RIGHT to enter prisons (not requiring that anyone actually go, just giving them the right if they WANTED to go).
This means the IDOC can decide who they want to let in & who to exclude.
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12 Apr 2023
Congratulations to Charlie Sullivan @CURENational (who broke the news yesterday) & @GalenBaughman who have advocated for the collection of this data for the past decade to paint a target on #ShadowPrisons in the US
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21 Sep 2022
No one should be locked up for imaginary future crimes. Last Thursday, the highest court in Virginia shutdown a rogue attempt by the AG to use a shopped witness to indefinitely detain a prominent advocate critical of #ShadowPrisons.
#AbolishPrecrime
ajustfuture.org/baughman-sup…
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1 Aug 2022
…and warehousing people *without* mental illnesses in “treatment facilities” that are prisons in all but name only.
#AbolishPrecrime
#ReleaseOnReleaseDate
#ShadowPrisons
1 Aug 2022
“We’ve gone from warehousing people with mental illness in buildings that felt like prisons, to warehousing them in actual prisons”
@iamjohnoliver on how lack of access to mental health services forces people into contact with criminal justice systems ⬇️
youtu.be/jtIZZs-GAOA
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26 Jul 2022
Building prisons and calling them by another name — “civil” or “treatment” facilities or a “Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation” — does not make your family safer.
#AbolishPreCrime
#ShadowPrisons
#ReleaseOnReleaseDate
29 Jun 2022
Caging people in abusive prisons does not make your family safer.
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10 May 2022
Let’s call them what they are: #ShadowPrisons
The term “civil commitment” is confusing. These laws are “civil” in name only. #ShadowPrisoners are locked away in explicitly punitive carceral setting, not “committed” to mental hospitals.
& @APAPsychiatric says it’s not commitment
22 Mar 2022
Civil commitment programs allow states to keep people convicted of sex offenses beyond their court ordered sentence. This kind of detention is unique to sex offenses and similar programs do not exist for other types of crime.
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1 May 2022
This #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth keep in mind the ways psychology & the guise of "treatment" are being used by the carceral state to condemn people to #ShadowPrisons & #OpenAirPrisons under 'civil' law.
Thanks to @HopeforVirginia for his leadership on raising awareness of this
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17 Apr 2022
Ditto the 6k people indefinitely confined to #ShadowPrisons in the US under 'civil' law for imaginary future crimes — often suffering from worse conditions & oversight than the regular criminal system because courts have ruled they are beyond the hard-won protections of crim law
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13 Apr 2022
Please don’t forget the #ShadowPrisons indefinitely warehousing people AFTER the completion of their prison sentences
#abolishprecrime
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9 Apr 2022
We’ve experienced an opposite problem — this Kafkaesque trend to label carceral settings “treatment” facilities. As if they can transform a prison into a therapeutic environment by hanging a sign out front.
#ShadowPrisons indefinitely confine “residents” AFTER their release
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4 Apr 2022
Thousands of people are held in #ShadowPrisons in the US for what the MIGHT do in the future
Every single one of them is locked up for an imaginary future crime — but it is impossible to prove you didn't do something that hasn't even happened (and probably never will)
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27 Mar 2022
*Every* person confined to one of America’s #ShadowPrisons for an imaginary #FutureCrime is actually innocent of that crime.
#ForWhatTheyMightDo
#AbolishPrecrime
#ReleaseOnReleaseDate
18 Mar 2022
Most female exonerees were wrongly convicted of crimes that never occurred. #WomensHistoryMonth innocenceproject.org/women-w…
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25 Feb 2022
The bastardization of psychiatry to create indefinite imprisonment and death is the deepest type of evil. #endcivilcommittment #shadowprisons #endpreventativedetention
Things haven’t changed…timesunion.com/local/article…
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31 Aug 2021
Men held at the MN Moose Lake shadow prison marched in protest. They are held there for treatment and yet: “This is not treatment, in 26 years Minnesota taxpayers have spent over a billion dollars for 14 full releases and 88 deaths”. #shadowprisons /1
texansagainstcivilcommitment…
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13 May 2021
Good time for a reminder that California's very early registry took aim at gays and that gays are overrepresented in today's #CivilCommitment #shadowprisons
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3 Apr 2021
This @reveal podcast helped me reflect on HB1090 and the many challenges associated with private, for-profit detention facilities. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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#shadowprisons
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31 Mar 2021
Does it matter what the recidivism rate is if it’s explicitly punitive? We shouldn’t keep people in cages who have already completed their prison sentences. These facilities are nothing more than #shadowprisons #abolishprecrime
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29 Mar 2021
Who's taken a public position against systems of pre-crime preventative detention? Checkout our list! If your organization isn't on the list, consider standing with us on the #rightsideofhistory #abolishprecrime #shadowprisons
ajustfuture.org/organization…
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