I encourage everyone to complete this survey. I'd also encourage you to remember that no department aside from HPD and Fire takes up more than 3% of the budget. So if you want more money for drainage, health, libraries, etc. let the city know!

"Through widespread cooperation with ICE, jails became the primary source where ICE found people to deport." Tl;dr: police are never going to help stop ICE. A collab with @NYUpress inquest.org/force-multiplier…

TODAY IN Washington D.C. Texas Jail Project testified to Congress in first hearing about harmful local impacts of 287(g) Watch the full hearing on Rep. Ramirez’s pages: 📷 X: x.com/repdeliaramirez 📷 Facebook: facebook.com/repdeliaramirez

Tune in now!

Tune in this morning at 8:30 ET to hear invited testimony from our very own @Dalilareyn82 at a Shadow Hearing organized by @repdeliaramirez on the harms of 287(g) Livestream here: x.com/repdeliaramirez & facebook.com/repdeliaramirez Our press advisory here: texasjailproject.org/2026/05…

A Texas petro crescent native details a lifetime of living in one of the nation’s most polluted zones, and indicts the predatory personal injury law firms that exploit communities recovering the region’s mundane petrochemical site explosions scalawagmagazine.org/2025/11…

As always, I will point out that police have a great advantage when it comes to marketing and PR. People feel unsafe? We need more police! People feel safe? What we're doing is working! We need more police!

It's interesting to see how police narratives shift in response to criticisms. On one hand, they're understaffed and don't have time to deal with "a transient complaining about a burger." On the other, this type of "full service" or "community policing" is vital. Which is it?

We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-cont…

A Florida law says companies convicted of a felony should be barred from holding public contracts, but the state has not acted to bar Armor companies providing jail health care despite a conviction and officials won’t say why. propublica.org/article/armor… @NicholeManna @TheFloridaTrib

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: texasobserver.org/immigratio…

The city of Verona, Wisconsin, ended its contract with surveillance company Flock Safety last fall, but the company waited months to remove its cameras. “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” says the mayor. boltsmag.org/verona-wisconsi…

THREAD. I have to say that I am very disappointed with John Oliver. I finally watched his segment on police body cameras, and it was abysmal. Missed the whole point, and in the process bought into some of the worst copaganda about them.

"Georgia spends $217,517 annually to incarcerate a child in its system.... The annual cost of a pupil in Georgia public schools is $15,833." An investigation with Prism and @mainlinezine into Georgia's dangerous, expensive youth incarceration inquest.org/inside-georgias-…

Since 2019, several New York City police officers have shot or tased someone while responding to a 911 mental health call, despite having undergone crisis intervention training: thecity.nyc/2026/03/09/crisi…

The Namantar Aandolan brought about a metamorphosis in Dalit literature, which rejected liberalism as orthodox piety, employed strong yet raw language, and served as the agency of historical documentation. scroll.in/article/1090111/ho… Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule writes

Three hundred million workers staged the largest strike action in human history. They shut down India, a G20 economy. Most of you are hearing about it for the first time now. That’s not poor journalism. That’s deliberate erasure of working-class power in real time. My latest👇🏾

In: @TxJailProject statement on $1.5 million settlement in federal lawsuit against Smith County:

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BREAKING NEWS New reporting and video evidence expose a devastating failure of justice in Georgia: Mahendra Patel, an Indian-American engineer, spent 47 days in jail after a white shopper falsely accused him of trying to kidnap her child at Walmart. Surveillance footage shows Patel did not abduct, struggle with, or flee with the child. He briefly reached out as the toddler nearly fell, then calmly continued shopping, paid with a debit card, and left. Despite having days to review the video, police arrested Patel anyway. A judge denied him bond. Prosecutors moved forward. Civil rights advocates say the case reveals a familiar pattern: racialized “stranger danger,” where white fear is treated as evidence and a man of color is presumed guilty. The result was incarceration without proof, reputational damage, and weeks of lost freedom. Equally damning is the media response. Major outlets reported the timeline while largely avoiding the racial dynamics that made the accusation believable and the arrest possible. Critics argue that omission helped normalize a system where fear outranks facts. Patel is now suing. The video didn’t just clear him. It exposed a justice system that picked a side before the evidence spoke.