bethanyhallam.bsky.social
Formerly Incarcerated. Recovery. Abolitionist. Law Student. Allegheny County (PA) Councilmember, At-Large. Yinzer. Buccos Fan. Jagoff. 💛🖤 #MakeProgressHappen 📍412
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I’ll ask! Can you tell me where exactly this is?
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🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 I love you!!!! Team work makes the dream work 💙
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I actually don’t know but I will try to find out!
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😭😭😭 I loved it!!!!
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A big thank you to @prisonpolicy.bsky.social for boosting my reporting and putting out research that informs journalists and the wider public about what's happening in jails and prisons. And to all my sources for this story, especially @tanishaevonne.bsky.social and @bethanyhallam.bsky.social.
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This is what those policies and practices lead to. This horrific violence and actual blood is on their hands.
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Yet, for some reason, Allegheny County judges continue to refuse pretrial release for many of those charged with even the most petty of alleged offenses and detain those on lengthy probation sentences simply because they can.
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The number of people held in the jail has exploded over the past 12-18 months, even as all crime—including violent crime!—has fallen dramatically.
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… or the County Police who allegedly investigate incidents in the jail.
The root of this all is, however, that no one is ever going to be safe in the ACJ, and the answer is to reduce the population as much as possible.
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We sometimes receive vague details such as an “incident occurred”, as was the case here, and only after our liaison went to speak with the victim did any details emerge. Still, to this day, we have received no follow-up from the jail