Decarceration, Abolition, Safety Starter Pack
Just a few go to people and organizations for understanding and advancing safety, harm reduction, justice, decarceration, and abolition
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@liamdnoit.bsky.social
@abgelb.bsky.social
Trafficking in facts and data, building common ground for safety and justice @CouncilonCJ. Proud alum @PewTrusts @senjudiciary @ajc #HTTC
@jbrownedianis.bsky.social
Movement Lawyer; Racial justice advocate. Exec. Dir, Advancement Project& APActionFund
@naheitzeg.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology & Race/Ethnicity, Vegan, Abolitionist, Total Liberation. Works available at: https://stkate.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/nancy-a-heitzeg
@freetracy.bsky.social
Researcher*Organizer*Writer*Public Historian*Filmmaker* on prisons and communities. Coming out of ‘retirement’ to ponder our new now and help where I can. Has the pendulum in the U.S. swung back to prison building?
@curbprisons.bsky.social
We are a coalition of over 80 organizations working to reduce the number of incarcerated people in California, reduce the number of jails and prisons in our state and shift wasteful spending away from incarceration and toward healthy community investments.
@rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social
it's a good theory in practice for people engaged in the spectrum of social justice struggles to figure out unexpected sites where their agendas align
@veraaction.bsky.social
Fighting to end mass incarceration, protect immigrants’ rights, restore dignity to people behind bars, and build safe and thriving communities.
@fwd.us
Fixing the harmful immigration and criminal justice systems that have locked too many out of the American dream for too long.
@gabrielsayegh.bsky.social
Parent. Organizer. Co-founder, @katalcenter.bsky.social. Views mine. Brooklyn, NY.
@jkangbrown.bsky.social
@civrightscorps.bsky.social
Challenging systemic injustice in the US legal system and changing the narrative around the punishment bureaucracy. www.civilrightscorps.org
@markobbie.bsky.social
Freelance criminal justice journalist writing for national publications about community gun violence victims and prevention. Based in upstate New York. Mostly retired, but dabbling still.
@amanda-alexander.bsky.social
@amistadlaw.bsky.social
Organizing to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. 📍Philly
@sentencinglaw.bsky.social
OSU law professor, Executive Director of Drug Enforcment and Policy Center (DEPC), writer of Sentencing Law & Policy blog, Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform blog, member Council on Criminal Justice
@famm.org
FAMM | Helping transform America’s criminal justice system by uplifting the voices of impacted families & individuals. RTs & likes ≠ endorsements
@nicoledporter.bsky.social
Senior Director of Advocacy @sentencingproject.bsky.social | #Htown 🤘🏾🖤| #LIBERATION✊🏾playlist http://rb.gy/6dacdn | #AKA1908💕💚 💕
@solitarywatch.bsky.social
Shining light into the darkest corners of the U.S. punishment system. http://solitarywatch.org | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/swdispatch | Support: http://bit.ly/givesw
@lauramctighe.bsky.social
Abolitionist. Ethnographer. Organizer. Co-Author with Women With A Vision of FIRE DREAMS: MAKING BLACK FEMINIST LIBERATION IN THE SOUTH www.lauramctighe.com | www.borninflames.com
@mkrupanski.bsky.social
Working for healthy, safe + strong communities now: Director of Criminal Justice Policy (Policing & Community Safety) w/Arnold Ventures || before: a bunch of stuff
@kassandrafred.bsky.social
Executive Director @DrugPolicyAlliance - Views are my own (she/her) 🎨: “Equality in Bloom” by Micah Terry
@chloecockburn.bsky.social
Advising donors on where to give money to end mass incarceration. Lawyer, painter, movement nerd. Substack: https://justimpact.substack.com/
@chrisuggen.bsky.social
Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@equalityalec.bsky.social
founder, Civil Rights Corps civil rights lawyer author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (2025) any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
@alexvitale.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
@historianheather.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped. www.heatherannthompson.com
@davidmenschel.bsky.social
Criminal defense attorney. Social activist. Documentary filmmaker. Movement strategist.
@victorialaw.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
@jeffasher.bsky.social
Co-Founder AH Datalytics. NOLA kid. Longhorn. Former CIA officer. 2004 Intramural Softball Champion (C-League). Not a criminologist! Newsletter: https://jasher.substack.com/ Jasher@ahdatalytics.com "Some genius, Jeff Asher" - Ann Coulter
@themarshallproject.org
criminal justice news. nonpartisan. nonprofit. nonpaywall. more active elsewhere (IG, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok). 📨 sign up for our newsletters: themarshallproject.org/newsletters
@kumar.bsky.social
Lawyer, former public defender. Progressive politics, racial justice, urban gardening. Let’s go Knicks/GoBlue.
@dreanyc123.bsky.social
Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice bit.ly/NoMorePolice bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
@keribla.bsky.social
Reporter: LA Times. Author: Corrections in Ink. New America fellow. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
@theappeal.org
We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system. You can support our work here: https://theappeal.org/donate/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://theappeal.org/newsletter-subscribe/
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
@uofer.bsky.social
Teach constitutional rights and policy advocacy at Princeton University. Founding Director, Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic. Former ACLU attorney for 20 years. Chair, International Advisory Council, Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
@justicepolicy.bsky.social
A national research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting fair and effective policies in the criminal legal system & reducing the use of incarceration. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/justicepolicy
@justicefwdva.bsky.social
Founded by public defenders. Promoting criminal justice reform in Virginia by drafting & lobbying for humane, evidence-informed legislation, and educating & mobilizing advocates for action.
@essie4justice.bsky.social
The nation’s leading advocacy organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration.
@eji.org
We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of @legacysites.eji.org
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@prisonpolicy.org
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
@liamdnoit.bsky.social
justice • decarceration • drumming • multimedia • other Philly <-> NYC <-> MTV