#criminalization

[destielmemenews]

"Russia’s highest court found in favour of a motion filed by the Ministry of Justice which claimed the LGBTQ community risked “inciting social and religious discord”, in violation of Russia’s Law on Countering Extremism, according to a statement from the UN condemning the decision."

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#destiel meme #destiel meme news #news #world news #russia news #russia #lgbtq rights #lgbtq community #lgbtq #lgbt #gay rights #queer rights #gay #tw lgbtphobia #homophobia tw #criminalization #vladimir putin #putin #putin is a war criminal #can someone do SOMETHING about that guy please

[alwaysbewoke]

#richard nixon #war on drugs #john ehrlichman #mass incarceration #racial discrimination #black americans #criminalization #anti-war movement #drug policy

[mxjackparker]

Please share to reach a wider range of people. I want to understand not just the positions people have on the law around sex work, but also how the think about the positions they have and whether they'd frame themselves as supporting sex workers or not.

#sexwork #feminism #sex work is work #feminist #decriminalization #criminalization

[gynoidgearhead]

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Thread by Alec Karakatsanis from June 15, 2021:

This the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to Ezell Gilbert is important because it explains how our legal system works as well as any case I have ever seen.

In 1997, Ezell Gilbert was sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison in a crack cocaine case. Because of mandatory sentencing (treating crack 100 times as severely as powder), he was put in a cage for a quarter century, and even the judge said this was too harsh.

At sentencing, Gilbert saw an error that increased his sentence by about **ten years** based on a misclassification of a prior conviction. In 1999, without a lawyer, he filed a petition complaining about the mistake. The Clinton DOJ opposed him, and a court ruled against him.

Ten years later, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in another person’s case, confirming that Gilbert had been correct about the error in his case. A public defender helped him file a new petition for immediate release from prison back to his family. He had served his time.

But Obama/Holder DOJ argued to a federal judge that even if his sentence was illegal, Gilbert must remain in prison. They said the “finality” of criminal cases was too important to allow prisoners to file more than one petition, even if the first one was wrongly denied.

The federal judge sided with Obama/Holder, and Ezell Gilbert remained in a cage even though everyone agreed he was now in prison illegally. He had the audacity to hope that courts would follow the law.

A federal appeals court disagreed with Obama/Holder, and in June 2010, three judges set Gilbert free after more than 14 years in prison.

The judges rejected the DOJ’s argument as a departure from fairness and common sense. They said that it could not be the law in the U.S. that a person had to serve a prison sentence that everyone admitted was illegal. Ezell Gilbert went home and stayed out of trouble.

Here’s where it gets interesting. There are many people like Gilbert in federal prison whose sentences are illegal. Did you know that? Instead of rushing to ensure that thousands of people illegally separated from their families were set free, DOJ decided to fight and appeal.

The Obama/Holder DOJ argued: If prisoners were allowed to file more petitions, the “floodgates” would open and many others — mostly poor, mostly Black — would have to be released. They asked a larger group of judges to reverse Gilbert’s victory.

In 2011, a larger group of judges, led by a Republican majority, agreed with Obama/Holder that the “finality” of sentences was too important to allow prisoners to be released on a second rather than first petition, even if the prisoner was correct all along.

Ezell Gilbert was rearrested and sent back to prison to serve out his illegal sentence in a cage. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f…

An 87-year-old Republican judge wrote a dissent. Having served in WWII, he called the explicit decision to illegally keep a human being in jail “shocking.” He wrote that a “judicial system that values finality over justice is morally bankrupt.”

Addressing Obama/Holder argument directly, he said: “[T]here are many others in Gilbert’s position — sitting in prison serving sentences that were illegally imposed. We used to call such systems ‘gulags.’ Now, apparently, we call them the United States.”

Major media ignored Ezell Gilbert’s case at the time.

In 2013, two years after sending him back to a cage, Obama granted Gilbert clemency, and the media praised Obama for his leniency. Tens of thousands of other human being remained in prison illegally. You’ve never heard their names.

(end thread)

#haven't found any tumblr posts about this yet and i know it's an old thread but holy shit #ezell gilbert #incarceration #prison industrial complex #war on drugs #antiblack racism #racism #criminalization #prison #prison abolition #private prisons #sentencing inequality #us politics #politics

[immaculatasknight]

Narrative control

#Britain #Palestine solidarity #criminalization #censorship #acceptable discourse #memory hole #Zionist lobby

[cannabisnewstoday]

#cannabis #marijuana #weed #pot #legalization #medical marijuana #mmj #medical cannabis #legalize #criminalization #norml

[fluoridosulphonic]

“Marginalized young people who encounter racialized punitive treatment are “not just humans-in-the-making, but resourceful social actors who take an active role in shaping their daily experiences.” I found that the young men in this study recognized, had a clear analysis of, and were resisting the criminalization they encountered. This resistance came in different forms. Some resisted by committing violent crime, others by organizing themselves and blocking off their streets with stolen cars and concrete slabs so police cars were unable to access them; and others resisted by becoming political organizers and returning to school. Much of the literature on mass incarceration has not been able to account for agency and resistance in the people most impacted by the punitive state.” (41)

- The Flatlands of Oakland and the Youth Control Complex by Victor Rios

#literature #quote #marginalized groups #black community #Black History month #History of Oakland #oakland #culture #ghettos #criminalization #over policing

[greeneyed-jade]

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The House of the Dead”

#mass incarceration #justice system #prison #America #prison reform #incarceration #criminalization #criminal justice #criminal justice reform #end mass incarceration #education not incarceration #social justice #broken system #racial disparities #institutionalized

[a-queer-seminarian]

Some activists in the movement to defend Atlanta's forests are being charged as domestic terrorists. 2,000 back, Rome's charges against Jesus were similarly misleading...

ID: video features a white genderqueer person with brown hair buzzed on the sides, sitting in front of a bookcase with a personal altar in the lowest shelves, glowing with candlelight. The image below the video is an illustration from the JESUS MAFA project of 1970s Cameroon, featuring Jesus as an African man with deep brown skin, wielding a whip and upturning a merchant's blanket. The market area in which he stands is in chaos, with people dropping things and fleeing from him. / end ID

#stop cop city #lenten video series #criminalization #video

[alwaysbewoke]

#richard nixon #war on drugs #john ehrlichman #mass incarceration #racial discrimination #black americans #criminalization #anti-war movement #drug policy

[oopsalltoxic]

Wtf is wrong with people who are pro-anti-loitering like doesn't the criminalization of existence terrify you? I need to know

#loitering #criminalization #politics #defund the police

[freshnewsnow]

420 Prominent Cannapreneurs (6 Mentioned)

Cannabis is quite the strange fruit with unusual connotations. The strange fruit aspect surrounding cannabis involves the stipulations, the fact that it is most commonly referred to as “marijuana” and the pick-and-choose aspects that are involved.

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#ALHARRINGTON #ALJEFFERSON #ALLENIVERSON #ANSLINGER #ATHLETES #balance #BIG3 #BILLIEHOLIDAY #BLACKBIZ #BLACKMAN #BlackOwnedBusiness #california #CALVINJOHNSON #Cannabis #COLLECTED #COLORADO #COOL #CRIMINALIZATION #DISCRIMINATION #DISPENSARY #DOUBLESTANDARDS #HOMESTASIS #ICECUBE #INTERNALIZATION #KENYONMARTIN #MEDITATION #MEGATRON #MICHAELPHELPS #MICHIGAN #MONTELWILLIAMS

[offscreendeath]

#demolition man #offscreendeathshots #uploads #MESSAGE! #cops #food sovereignty #criminalization #class war #food justice #sylvester stallone #pizza hut #taco bell #1993 #film #film blog #sorry for the low quality this movie wasn't worth downloading lmao #police #policing #dystopia

[immaculatasknight]

The crime of truth

#Poland #censorship #Ukraine #NATO #war #cover-up #criminalization #anti-war #peace activism

[stargoyle]

"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

#text post #sex work is normal its not dirty or criminal why are we still freaking tf out ove this

[i-am-aprl]

UN said: Gaza needs 70 years to be livable, at least 70% of the infrastructure is destroyed.. Gaza, the most beautiful city that I have ever seen in some before and after pictures that shows a little part of the destruction.

#israelis are terrorists #gaza #فلسطين #free gaza #israel is evil #israeli war crimes #israel is a terrorist state #palestine #free palestine #israel #jerusalem #i stand with palestine #israel is committing genocide #Israelis are war criminals