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WE are left out of budget decisions. We want transparency and real investments with our tax dollars. Family support and safe neighborhoods. Join the KCCJ to tell Bakersfield City Council and Mayor: Our Tax Dollars, Our Community, Our Future #BakersfieldVoices #CommunityOverCops
Autopsy confirms natural causes in death of inmate charged with attempted murder bakersfieldnow.com/news/loca…
Ever wonder who PROFITS when someone goes to jail?
It’s not just the prison.
💰 Bail bond companies
📞 Prison phone vendors
🧼 Commissary suppliers
👮 Police departments
🏛️ Court systems
🧪 Drug test firms
👷 Cheap prison labor for corporations
Mass incarceration is a BUSINESS.
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Prisons cannot hold up against sweltering heat – most of these facilities lack AC & are basically concrete coffins that will only become more inhospitable for people who are locked up.
ALT Graph showing that between 2001 and 2019, after a three-day heatwave, all causes of death in state prisons increased by 7.4%, suicide increased by 15% and heart disease-related by 7.6%
📢 Have you ever wondered how much it costs to house just ONE person in prison or jail in California?
The answer Over $132,000 a year
That’s YOUR tax dollars and that’s more than what it costs to send someone to college
Prisons are everywhere The economic impact falls on YOU
AB 2761, McCarty. Deaths while in law enforcement custody. Whether it's state prison or local jail, every life matters. It ensures no death in custody goes unreported. No more vague reports. AB 2761 requires full transparency: Who, Where, How, and Why.
AB 2761, McCarty. Deaths while in law enforcement custody. Whether it's state prison or local jail, every life matters. ITensures no death in custody goes unreported. No more vague reports. AB 2761 requires full transparency: Who, Where, How, and Why.
Join us at the California City’s City Council meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 5pm to tell city representatives we don’t want a BILLION-dollar corporation that profits over human suffering to open an immigration detention center in Cal City!
Juneteenth celebrations planned in Bakersfield with events throughout the week bakersfieldnow.com/news/eyew…
Kern County participates in nationwide 'No Kings' protests bakersfieldnow.com/news/loca…
What happened during three days of protests over immigration raids in downtown L.A. latimes.com/california/live/…
Care First Kern retweeted
🗓️TOMORROW
Communities across the US are proposing spending millions (sometimes billions) on new jails – but new, bigger jails don't make anyone safer.
This webinar will discuss how you can push back against jail expansion.
Register here 👇
zoom.us/webinar/register/621…
ALT Flyer with webinar details - Date: June 11, 2025 at 2:00pm ET Speakers include: Carrie Ann Shirota (Policy Director, ACLU-HI with the Reimagining Public Safety in Hawaii Coalition), Michael Collins (Senior Director of Government Affairs, Color of Change with the Communities Over Cages Coalition) and Liz Blum-Gutierrez (Co-founder Decarcerate Sacramento)
📢 SB 519 (Atkins)
This California law is a huge step forward for transparency and accountability in local jails and detention centers.
✨ Key changes under SB 519:
A State Director of In-Custody Death Review will now oversee investigations into deaths behind bars.
Hundreds die in CA jails yearly—many pretrial or serving short terms. AB 2521 requires agencies to report these deaths, but we need more than data—we need justice.
🗣 Incarcerated people have rights
📞 Call your reps
📲 Share their stories
#AB2521 #JusticeForAll #EndTheSilence
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This week:
✅ People’s Action is in D.C. telling Congress: Don’t gut health care & housing to fund billionaire tax breaks
✅ Volunteers are phone banking to stop Medicaid & climate cuts
✅ YOU can take action from anywhere → ppls.ac/whatyoucando
#StopTheCuts
'Surge' of violence prompts crackdown in California prison system, officials say latimes.com/california/story…
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The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on earth — worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations.
prisonpolicy.org/global/2024…
ALT Graph showing incarceration rates among founding NATO countries
Newsom moves to close another state prison. That makes 5 since he took office calmatters.org/justice/2025/…
While these initiatives aim to create a more effective justice system, they have faced opposition from local communities concerned about economic impacts and job losses.
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The United States incarcerates 1.8 million people—but the reach of mass incarceration extends beyond prison walls. Another 3.7 million people are trapped in the system through probation or parole, living under strict supervision and the constant threat of incarceration for violating unreasonable rules.
Here’s how probation requirements are fueling mass incarceration: vera.org/news/unreasonable-p…