You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged prison.
Marc Lamont Hill on sagging of pants, black criminaliziation, and the politics of respectability.
mm. my husband. dropping wisdom on you bitches left.and.right.
“ The average prison sentence for men who kill their intimate partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their partners are sentenced, on average, to 15 years.17 A pair of Maryland cases vividly illustrates this inequality in sentencing.18 In one case, a judge in Baltimore County, Maryland sentenced Kenneth Peacock to 18 months for killing his unfaithful wife. The very next day, another judge in the same county sentenced Patricia Ann Hawkins to three years in prison for killing her abusive husband. Significantly, the prosecutor in the Peacock case requested a sentence twice as long as the one imposed, while the prosecutor in the Hawkins case requested one-third of the sentence imposed.
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The Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project (via illegalplumpudding)
“As many as 90% of the women in prison today [2008] for killing men had been battered by those men.15”
(via bananapeppers)
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages” -Angela Y. Davis
“ They call me the “most wanted woman” in Amerikkka. I find that ironic. I’ve never felt very “wanted” before. When it came to jobs, I was never the “most wanted,” when it came to “economic opportunities I was never the “most wanted, when it came to decent housing.” It seems like the only time Black people are on the “most wanted” list is when they want to put us in prison.
— Assata Shakur (via torrid-wind)
can we tour a prison afterward?
things i learned today
Australian indigenous people make up 3% of the total population, but almost 30% of the prison population.
This is the highest indigenous imprisonment rate in the world.
They are being imprisoned faster than South Africans during Apartheid were.
“you can tell monopoly is an old fame because there’s a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail”
“Bryan Stevenson: We Need To Talk About An Injustice” - TEDTalk
