jail

one day in the last week of may. 2026. (on the oppressor’s kalendar.)
i went into the website for the tuskaloosa kounty jail.
&& out of about 650 or so registered kaptives.
i kounted every person who has been inside sinse 2023. (on the oppressor’s kalendar.)
so, people who been lokked up for at least 2.5 years at this point.
&& the jail website had 48 people lokked up on their list who had been in that long. of which, 37 were Blakk.
that’s 77%. in a kounty that is supposed to be around 33% Blakk. (in the oppressor’s sensus data.)

the breakdown year by year looks like this.
lokked up in 2023 – 20 Blakk ppl, 9 others.
lokked up in 2022 – 9 Blakk ppl, 1 other.
lokked up in 2021 – 7 Blakk ppl, 1 other.
lokked up in 2020 – yes, there was one Blakk person in jail in tuskaloosa who has been there sinse 2020.

i desyded to do the same thing in jefferson kounty (where birmingham is).
&& i found in their website, on the same day, 129 people who had been lokked up in jail sinse 2023 or earlier.
&& i found 114 of them were Blakk.
which is like 90%. in a kounty that’s supposed to be 43% Blakk. (in the oppressor’s sensus data.)

&& i know how i feel about this situation. && what i feel should be done about this. about jails. about kounties. about ameriKKKan states & the ameriKKKan way of life.

but what i don’t know is. now that YOU know.
what do YOU feel about this situation.
&& what do YOU feel should be done.
&& what will YOU do about jails ?
about kounties ?
about ameriKKKan states ?
about the ameriKKKan way of life ?
{{how}} will WE akt ?

Submitted Anonymously

“They Can’t Beat All of Us”

From CrimethInc.

A Reportback from the Florida Abolitionist Gathering

From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of abolitionists and anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering (FAG). Across a passionate weekend of workshops, films, food, debate, ritual, and protest, the contours of a robust regional resistance movement came into focus. The intergenerational, heavily queer and trans, and strongly multi-issue and anarchist group of abolitionists that converged in Florida articulated an expansive vision of liberation anchored in the urgent need to dismantle the prison-industrial complex in all its manifestations. The gathering showed that even as liberals wring their hands about the death of democracy, scrappy groups of organizers continue to fight back—and sometimes win—deep within the belly of the beast.

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