Proclaim Justice is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to winning freedom for victims of wrongful conviction.
Austin, TX
Joined August 2012
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🚨PLEASE help us: Nikki Zinger has spent over 30 years in prison for murdering her mother - her only family. DNA proves the prosecutions theory was wrong. Nikki is innocent and needs our help just to survive inside. Learn more at the link below and SHARE:
linktr.ee/FreeNikkiZinger
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Journalists have been covering deaths from prison heat since at least 2012. Before every summer, legislators have a choice to budget for A/C, and they don’t, and more people die. Texas had a state budget surplus this year.
themarshallproject.org/2017/…
In Texas, more than two-thirds of prisoner living areas lack air conditioning.
@johnyangtv speaks with @MauriceChammah to learn more. to.pbs.org/3XWHU4K
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For @NewsHour @AzharMerchant_,@satvi_sunkara and I spoke to former inmates in Texas prisons and family members of those still inside, to try and learn what it's like to live through extreme heat behind bars. @MauriceChammah of the @MarshallProj joins us. youtube.com/watch?v=KVesf3cg…
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‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison (via @prismreports)
prismreports.org/2023/07/12/…
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Our members' profiles have already been updated accordingly. Make sure to send all mail for people at the rollout units to:
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Inmate’s Full First and Last Name + TDCJ Number + Unit Name
P.O. Box 660400
Dallas, TX 75266-0400
#prisonpenpals
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This new policy will be rolling out in Texas state prisons in phases. It is only to launch on July 17th, 2023 at Polunsky, Coffield, Powledge, Plane, Garza West, Allred, Clements, Halbert, Robertson and East Texas ISF units for now. Remaining units will follow. [...]
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We are saddened to share the news that Texas is now one of the states to implement the replacement of physical mail in their prisons for scanned copies, supposedly to reduce the amount of contraband being sent in throughout the mail. We do NOT support such measures. [...]
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"Stories like mine, while common throughout the U.S. prison system, rarely see the light of day."
From a Washington prison, Kevin Light-Roth writes about spending nearly 400 days in solitary, all due to an obscenely arbitrary decision-making process. theappeal.org/solitary-confi…
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Mail scanning doesn’t keep drugs out of prisons. But it does cut people’s only tangible connection to their loved ones. No more drawings from their kids, cards on their birthday, or being able to touch a letter you know your loved one also touched.
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Since Texas prisons apparently couldn't get staff to stop smuggling in drugs they are now going to stop drugs by getting all the inmate mail scanned and people will only get digital copies.
And who is in charge of the scanning? Based on this, it appears to be... SECURUS.
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There is no scientific evidence that fired bullets or cartridge cases can be matched to a specific gun. In recognition of this, the MD Supreme Court recently ruled to place limits on ballistics testimony. #junkscience nbcwashington.com/investigat…
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Join IPTX in wishing Elizabeth Ramirez a Happy Birthday! Liz and her three co-defendants spent a combined 56 years in prison for a crime that never occurred. All four women were exonerated in 2016.
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Over 20 years after Michael Politte was wrongfully convicted of his mother’s murder, he tells his story to @48Hours this Saturday at 10PM/9PM CT, catch the sneak peek below.
Please help Michael as he fights to rebuild his life donate to his GoFundMe here: gofundme.com/f/help-michael-…
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The time from wrongful conviction to exoneration tends to be longer for those who falsely confess & the system -prosecutors, judges (trial & app.) & even def. lawyers-tend to be less believing of false confessors's innocence, all of which cd contribute to a higher mortality tax
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2/2 It's difficult to pinpoint why false confessors have shorter life spans but one theory of mine is that those who falsely confess are traumatized not only by the interrogation process but by beating themselves up for falsely confessing in the first place.
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1/2 MUST READ: New Research from @AllisonRedlich & Dr. Mary Catlin shows that non-white exonerees & those who falsely confessed (or are misid'ed) have much shorter life spans than those who are wrongly convicted based on other forms of evidence. researchgate.net/publication…
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And several of those years were on death row, just fyi….
Not nearly enough
Maryland panel OKs $2.9M compensation for wrongfully convicted man who spent 32 years behind bars: woodtv.com/news/national/ap-…
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This new nonfiction anthology--"Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning"--features some spectacular work, including haunting pieces by @justinevdl and @WesleyLowery.
Curated by @sarahw, with an intro by @rabiasquared.
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Federal judge denies Alabama prosecutors' motion to dismiss lawsuit by death row prisoner Kenneth Smith that alleges a second attempt to execute him by lethal injection would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. al.com/news/2023/07/judge-de… @aldotcom @MikeCasonAL #deathpenalty
