But despite his tough rhetoric, #Trump has sparked controversy by pardoning a growing number of convicted #DrugDealers, including this week's move to grant clemency to Larry Hoover, 74, who was serving multiple life sentences in federal #prison for #crimes linked to his role leading the #Chicago-based #GangsterDisciples.
Thousands of #Americans are rotting in #prison for nonviolent #drug offenses while #Trump gave a pathetic, addicted manbaby the authority to tear down government services.
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X/Twitter Goes Down for Third Time In a Week, Just as Musk Drug Story Drops https://sfist.com/2025/05/30/x-twitter-goes-down-for-third-time-in-a-week-just-as-musk-drug-story-drops/
“This bill violates basic principles of due process, keeps poor people in jail for being poor, and hands prosecutors a veto over judicial decisions. Texas families deserve reforms rooted in evidence, fairness, and public safety instead of fear.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-house-bail-legislature/
#Binance founder Changpeng “#CZ” Zhao also pleaded #guilty, paid a $50M fine & was sentenced to 4 months in #prison.
In late April—a few wks before #USD1 began trading on Binance—Zhao applied for a #pardon from #Trump’s #DOJ.
On Thurs, the #SEC voluntarily dismissed its suit against Binance that accused it of failing to restrict high-net-worth individuals from the platform, misleading investors about trading controls & commingling funds that it routed to a 3rd party.
New from Michelle Pitcher: “Bills in this package are going to swell the Texas pretrial population. That’s going to impact counties first. Local jails, which are already having to send people out of county or out of state in order to keep their populations manageable are going to find they have an even worse problem on their hands.” https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-house-bail-legislature/
Fox was sentenced to 16yrs in #prison on conspiracy to #kidnap & #conspiracy to possess #weapons of mass destruction [#WMD] charges, while Croft was sentenced to 19yrs on the same 2 charges as Fox, plus a 3rd charge of knowingly possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Zum #AmnestyInternationalDay heute ein Lektüretipp aus dem #Heftarchiv:
»politische gefangene«, #WerkstattGeschichte 80/2019, im Thementeil (hg. v. Gabriele Metzler & Annelie Ramsbrock) Beiträge u.a. zu #Hungerstreiks Inhaftierter in der #WeimarerRepublik & in #Nordirland, zu Kommunisten in #Haft im #Franco-#Spanien u. zu #GeorgeJackson.
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/politische-gefangene/
It came just in the nick of time for Walczak, sparing him from having to pay nearly $4.4M in #restitution & from reporting to #prison for an 18-month sentence that had been handed down just 12 days earlier. The judge declared there “is not a get-out-of-jail-free card” for the #rich.
The #pardon, however, indicated otherwise. The case…is the latest example of #Trump’s willingness to use his #power to reward allies who advance his political causes, enrich him personally, & punish his enemies.
#law
As #PaulWalczak awaited sentencing early this year, his best hope for avoiding #prison time rested with the newly inaugurated president.
Mr. Walczak, a former nursing home exec who had pleaded #guilty to #tax #crimes days after the 2024 election, submitted a #pardon application to #Trump around Inauguration Day. The application focused not solely on Walczak’s offenses but also on the political activity of his mother, Elizabeth Fago.
Our top story: “Death row becomes what prison is supposed to be but often isn’t. Death row is a place of reformation, rehabilitation, and correction. Ironically the one place where it matters the least.” https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/
Our top story: “He spent 20 years locked up, and all of a sudden you can see the sky and you can walk barefoot on grass. It’s a completely new experience. It’s impressive to me that he was able to handle that.” https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/
John J. Lennon lives at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where he is serving his 24th year of a 28-years-to-life sentence. He’s also a journalist whose work has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and more. Until last year, he was at Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he mentored emerging writers, both informally and most recently, through the Sullivan Nonfiction Writing Workshop. He writes for @nybooks about setting that up, and what happened when it came to an end with the prison’s closure. “I often think about the time before I came to prison, when I had no promising future. I’ve come to realize that two opposing realities can be true at once: prison probably saved my life and it’s where I learned to write; and prison is a disgusting place that’s hurting me more now than ever,” he writes. “I’m both ashamed and proud of my path. But it wouldn’t have been possible if prison officials hadn’t given writing programs a chance.” [Story may be paywalled]
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/05/21/finding-the-story-prison-writing/
Our top story: In the last half-century, approximately 300 former death row occupants have had their convictions overturned or sentences reduced to life or even a lesser sentence. Clinton Young, unlike most, was released on bail while courts worked out his case. https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/
JE VEUX PAS D'ARGENT POUR COMPENSER, JE VEUX DES CONDAMNATIONS POUR CRIME CONTRE L'HUMANITÉ ET PARTICIPATION PROUVÉE À L'EXTINCTION DE L'HUMANITÉ.
ON SE RÉVEILLE QUAND DIS-MOI ?
ON PARLE DE VIE BORDEL!
PAS D'ACTIONS EN BOURSE!
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/avec-sciences/climat-les-plus-riches-rechauffent-la-planete-pour-les-autres-7814553
Les 10 % les plus aisés de la planète sont responsables de deux tiers du réchauffement global depuis 1990.
This is an old story about a prison escape in NH in 2003. It mentions suicide, because the man who helped them escape died that way. He was a friend and it was tragic, none of us know why he helped these guys except Maybe for the money and because they had been his friends when he was an inmate.
Anyway, the reason I share this is because the prison was a clown show. They were pretty much begging people to escape. Of course New Hampshire would spend money purchasing security cameras for the prison they hadn’t even installed a year later. Because of course we would.
22 years ago was such a different time. They wouldn’t have made it out of town if it happened these days, and if they did there would be a steady stream of ring cameras recording their path.
I miss my friend. The hospital kept him on life-support and tell everyone could show up and say goodbye, mainly because they wanted his family to donate his organs. And they did. But the organ donation people were so awful I actually took the organ donor design designation off my ID after this experience because they terrified me.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/feb/15/escaped-new-hampshire-prisoners-caught-camping/
Our top story: Clinton Young spent nearly two decades condemned to die. His peaceful, productive time out on bond poses questions about how Texas decides who lives long enough to get another chance.
https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/
Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.
#censorship #prison #writing #author #fiction #freespeech #censorship #satire #danieldefoe #libel #books @bookstadon
Sale semaine pour Darmanin: le Conseil d’Etat vient d'annuler l’interdiction de toute activité "ludique en prison, désavouant ainsi une circulaire qu'il a publié en février dernier. L'ambitieux ministre de la justice a aussi essuyé des critiques des élus ultra-marins face à son projet de bagne en Guyane et des magistrats après avoir suggéré qu'il fallait éviter la prison aux délinquants financiers.
Sweden has banned residents from purchasing porn, including OnlyFans clips, cam shows, and other online amateur creators' work. Buyers could face up to 1 year in #prison.
(edit: this only counts for amateur camshows, not pre recorded porn. Also, fuck Sweden and anyone who supports this. Cheers.)
Death penalty update: Texas is set to execute Matthew Johnson tonight. He was convicted of the 2012 murder of Nancy Harris in Dallas County. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-death-row-execution-matthew-johnson/
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