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ncsufoxes
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Other page from the previous picture. I find that these are important stats to share since I don‘t think k that most anybody knows how our prisons are funded. My new fear after reading this book is that the current state is that people will be so desperate they will commit crimes & be put in jail. Which since most prisons are private, someone is making money off of people being in jail.

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ncsufoxes
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Title: bankrolling the carceral state

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ncsufoxes
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Title: extent of the carceral control

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ncsufoxes
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Did you know that 1 in 58 people in the US are part of the carceral system (that involves prison- over 1.4 million, probation, on parole or in a local jail)? How is this statistic not being shouted from the rooftops? This book is comprised of short essays by activists, researchers, prisoners themselves about the prison system in the US. There are discussions about ways to decrease police use by forming stronger communities, providing adequate

ncsufoxes housing, food banks, education, mental health access & services. It was an interesting way to look at better ways to help people other than criminalizing them. Actually crime has been taking a downward trajectory the last 20 years but there continues to be massive increases in police funding. I found it to be interesting & of course found more to read from the authors. 2d
TheBookHippie As having visited and visit jail often.. I‘ve yelled often about this. It‘s a whole cesspool of variables. The unfairness of sentencing is mind blowing. 2d
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lil1inblue
Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Y. Davis
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Eggs Great choice 3d
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Hanna-B
James: A Novel | Percival Everett
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I think everyone knows this a retelling of Huckelberry Finn, from the perspective of James/Jim who was a slave. Instantly engrossing and engaging. It‘s a hard story to handle but there‘s also much to appreciate. The intelligence, and nuance of James who was such a well depicted character, I felt like I knew him and I enjoyed his company very much. A must read for everyone

#james #percivaleverett #abolition

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mhillis
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The subtitle of We Still Here covers the main topics within: pandemic, policing, protest, and possibility. This book was published in 2020 and is organized in interviews format. The chapters Justice for “All” and Whose Violence? were especially powerful.
#Nonfiction2025 #BlackLivesMatter #MonthlyNonfiction2025
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa @julieclair

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Stacking! Sounds really good 1mo
julieclair The title kind of says it all, doesn‘t it. Sounds like an important book. 👍 1mo
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Clare-Dragonfly
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This book is aimed at organizers, but I highly recommend it even if you (like me) don‘t intend to do any organizing. It‘s full of information, both actionable and philosophical. This is a book we need in this time of terrifying fascists destroying our government.

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JenniferEgnor
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A challenging read, written in great detail like a text from university. I am from Charleston and I never knew the Grimke story until now. The house still stands and you can tour it. But do they talk about the horrors that went on inside it? There were some very dark parts in this book, as is anything truthfully told about slavery. The Grimke family were an elite, wealthy family who owned multiple plantations and hundreds of slaves. The⬇️

JenniferEgnor two sisters had a distaste for it and eventually left for PA, later becoming abolitionists. However, their activism was problematic. They still viewed Black people as ‘less than‘, and were silent as PA Hall burned in 1834; they also didn‘t acknowledge their own complicity, or their family‘s, in the system of oppression. Their family contained white, Black, and passing, as many families did. An important, historical read that we can take ⬇️ 4mo
JenniferEgnor much from today, as many of these white savior attitudes still exist. 4mo
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JenniferEgnor
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Did you know that PA had a ‘gradual‘ abolition law in 1780? It was approved by the legislature only after Quaker leaders heeded the appeals of wealthy slaveholders and merchants who feared the economic and racial consequences of immediate emancipation. It gave ‘freedom‘ to enslaved children born after 1780 but required them to serve former masters for 28 years…

Suet624 Wow. 4mo
JenniferEgnor @Suet624 some freedom huh…🧐🤔 (edited) 4mo
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