- Let's see... After Columbine, they passed a slew of "zero tolerance" laws. Guess which schools got the police officers and metal detectors?
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280372308365934592
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:02:22 - I sincerely hope that folks push back with the quickness against the idea that the solution to mass school-based shootings (which are RARE)+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280372607705051136
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:03:33 - is more police in our schools. It is a recipe for accelerating the school-to-prison pipeline even more for black and brown kids. Just say NO
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280372776626425856
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:04:13 - I would also like to caution the folks who are offering gun control uncritically as a panacea. I am gun control in the abstract but I live+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280374035039268864
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:09:13 - in a city where black and brown kids some of whom I work with are currently locked up on "gun charges." These laws disproportionately+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280374227973046273
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:09:59 - impact and target the "usual suspects" which happen to be the archetype "criminalblackman." As long our criminal legal system is racist and+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280374415475220480
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:10:44 - classist and heterosexist, it will be the marginalized who will be locked up. It will not be people like Adam Lanza who live in million $+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280374623395266562
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:11:33 - homes in CT. Let's not sleep on this or be naive. My friend Kathy Bankhead who is an ADA here in Chi had to sound the alarm last year re:+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280374872696299520
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:12:33 - new gun laws that went into effect here in Illinois in 2011 which would target not just the person who had an illegal weapon but people who+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280375007480266752
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:13:05 - were with them as BYSTANDERS. These bystanders were seen as potential "gang members." Folks this is tough stuff & we should not be rushing
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280375190242865153
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:13:49 - to uncritically support potential new legislation. Let's closely analyze how any new laws will impact marginalized people in this country+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280375378206396416
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:14:33 - To me this is the number 1 test of whether I can/will support new gun laws.
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280375461392048128
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:14:53 - I share with those who are interested the following post with the info that Kathy shared last year re: new IL laws - http://tinyurl.com/385bmtv 85bmtv
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280376044832313344
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:17:12 - You will see how easy it is to twist gun laws to target the marginalized through Kathy's words. All I am saying is that it is worth taking+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280376567450968064
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:19:17 - a deep breath before progressives (especially) get on this "gun control" bandwagon. It's worth asking if the law will effectively reduce+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280376772707627011
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:20:06 - interpersonal violence or if it will simply increase the reach of the prison industrial complex. If the answer is the latter, we should+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280376907894226944
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:20:38 - reject any new laws out of hand. Again, apologies for this barrage of tweets over the past couple of days but so much is happening & +
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280377065482637312
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:21:16 - I worry that folks are getting swept up by understandable emotion and that we are on our way to contributing to the expansion of the PIC+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280377220462149634
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:21:53 - rather than to the creation of a more just, nonviolent, and healthy culture and society.
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280377316075528192
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:22:15 - I implore progressives to jump off the bandwagon for a little bit. It is a mark of most progressives that we value empirical evidence.
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280377955522326528
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:24:48 - Passing new gun control laws tomorrow won't stop the already over 300 million guns owned in this country from being used for nefarious+
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280378240642736128
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:25:56 - purposes. They just won't but they might help to lock more people off unjustly.
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280378380430479360
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:26:29 - Two years ago, I was asking why it seems that black men are the only ones jailed for owning guns after Plaxico Burress - http://tinyurl.com/7qmjo8n qmjo8n
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280378954890768386
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:28:46 - Let's be judicious moving ahead. Let's think and then react. Again, apologies for all of these tweets. That. Is. All.
http://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/280379166770221056
— Prison Culture (@prisonculture)Sun, Dec 16 2012 18:29:37
