I don't know whether "Worn Stories" is still streaming on Netflix, but the stories are well worth your time. One of the episodes concerned a man who tailored his own orange jumpsuit while in prison and how that put him in a heap of trouble with the prison authorities, for daring to be an individual there. There was the release of a man from prison, who was picked up by someone else who knew what it was like to get out of prison with nothing and no one to care. He took the ex-con to a store and made sure he had clothes and a place to go, and something to eat. Niagra Falls, Frankie Angel. Onion ninjas. (I watched it toward the beginning of the pandemic lockdown, so I might be misremembering a detail or two, but all the stories are entertaining. I now think really hard about whether to buy an article of clothing, where to buy it, and whether to donate something.
Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. I am originally from Massachusetts and read the Globe almost daily and I did not see this (doesn’t mean that they did not report it however).
Makes me think of an NPR story I heard once about the incarcerated returning to society. It really struck me when he spoke about the first time seeing an automatic faucet in a public bathroom. He stood there unable to know how to turn on the sink. It just broke my heart and brought home just how much adjustment there must be.
median one-bedroom might be $2,500 but on a short term public housing (not the crime-ridden kind*) can provide cheap, temporary space (even free!) until compensation and other measures can be worked out.
free tuition at a community college or even a state college should also be available.
* i live in A Old project, not the best but no violence i've seen (too old and feeble, most of us) i've lived in better but it's not that bad
Does anyone--and I mean ANYONE--believe that the real number of wrongly incarcerated (even given our laws) is not at least a hundred times those proved innocent by these projects?
Considering we really ought to be making things less horrible in US prisons for people who were PROPERLY convicted, we sure as HELL ought to do more for those WRONGLY convicted.
According to the standard ISIS playbook at some point they start murdering them horribly then sending out the videos. I can wait a long time for that to start.
I checked to see the average rent for one br in Erie County, NY, and it was $1,275. I guess I have officially joined the olds, complaining about the price of everything. :-)
Don't be too sure about that. NH can be pretty RWNJ, depending on how the wind blows. And they're being pissy about having their Dem primary kicked around.
About bloody time, too.
I don't know whether "Worn Stories" is still streaming on Netflix, but the stories are well worth your time. One of the episodes concerned a man who tailored his own orange jumpsuit while in prison and how that put him in a heap of trouble with the prison authorities, for daring to be an individual there. There was the release of a man from prison, who was picked up by someone else who knew what it was like to get out of prison with nothing and no one to care. He took the ex-con to a store and made sure he had clothes and a place to go, and something to eat. Niagra Falls, Frankie Angel. Onion ninjas. (I watched it toward the beginning of the pandemic lockdown, so I might be misremembering a detail or two, but all the stories are entertaining. I now think really hard about whether to buy an article of clothing, where to buy it, and whether to donate something.
Only two states are addressing this. I knew the system was fucked but I didn't know it was this fucked.;
People leave prison with no place to sleep. Shelters are over-crowded and moving from the forced order of prison to complete chaos would be maddening.
I think the $5k matters the most. A safe quiet hotel room. Your own shower. A library card. All these things.
Ta, Robyn.
Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. I am originally from Massachusetts and read the Globe almost daily and I did not see this (doesn’t mean that they did not report it however).
Makes me think of an NPR story I heard once about the incarcerated returning to society. It really struck me when he spoke about the first time seeing an automatic faucet in a public bathroom. He stood there unable to know how to turn on the sink. It just broke my heart and brought home just how much adjustment there must be.
median one-bedroom might be $2,500 but on a short term public housing (not the crime-ridden kind*) can provide cheap, temporary space (even free!) until compensation and other measures can be worked out.
free tuition at a community college or even a state college should also be available.
* i live in A Old project, not the best but no violence i've seen (too old and feeble, most of us) i've lived in better but it's not that bad
Apartments are not necessarily available on demand in public housing, depending on where you are.
And let me just say that, even though she isn't my state senator, Pat Jehlen is my friend and she rocks!
Does anyone--and I mean ANYONE--believe that the real number of wrongly incarcerated (even given our laws) is not at least a hundred times those proved innocent by these projects?
Nice thought, but since so many Confederate states can't be bother to expand Medicaid, not very likely imo.
Considering we really ought to be making things less horrible in US prisons for people who were PROPERLY convicted, we sure as HELL ought to do more for those WRONGLY convicted.
Oregon..Oregon… We can be better than that sooner than that.
Brings to mind this exonerated gentleman. Make it stop.
https://apnews.com/article/deputy-sheriff-shooting-traffic-stop-georgia-9ca56342974dd22b34ae330af62c555c
News reports indicate Hamas has released two additional hostages, both elderly Israeli women.
Two a week? For the next hundred-some weeks? I was sort of hoping for a resolution sooner than that.
According to the standard ISIS playbook at some point they start murdering them horribly then sending out the videos. I can wait a long time for that to start.
Those poor dirty desperate children.
$2.500? I think I'll stay in WNY.
I am very glad people are talking about this, and doing something positive.
last non-public place i had was about $650/mo including heat and hot water . . . in MA
a bit dumpy but livable
I checked to see the average rent for one br in Erie County, NY, and it was $1,275. I guess I have officially joined the olds, complaining about the price of everything. :-)
OT: Trump's "big announcement" today is...he filed in NH. And he's there for a rally/ego stroke in a state he has no chance of winning.
Nice to see he can still lead the media around by the nose, and they still pretend they are stalwart defenders of democracy.
Fuck this timeline. Will some Secret Service Agent rid us of this meddlesome rapist?
Don't be too sure about that. NH can be pretty RWNJ, depending on how the wind blows. And they're being pissy about having their Dem primary kicked around.
Latest polls show Biden +9 on aggregate.
I'll send a couple of extra busloads of Black & brown folks from MA over the border to vote a second time. Just to be sure.
He did get a dig in at whoever this Emmer fool is though
He big mad at Emmer. Dude voted to certify Biden's win.
It'll be an interesting test of maga loyalty. This could be the breaking point.
But I won't like hold my breath or anything silly like that!
Are you *sure* about that? New Hampshire is getting kicked out of New England because of its MAGA RWNJs.
Still trying to configure how Manchester and Concord can stay with us.
NH is pretty much blue in the more densely populated areas and red-ish in the hinterlands.
Like almost all other states.
I know. I live next door. That's why me and Land Shark are letting Concord and Manchester stay.
:)
It's kind of like Vermont - blue everywhere except the NE Kingdom.
The final derelict gestures of a doomed and desperate deposed despot.
Hmmm ... done for the day. Nah ... I think I'll hang out for the 4:20pm open thread ...
1:20, please.
That's 13:20, Soldier.
2:20 Mythical, magical mountain time.
I admire your eagerness and flexibility!
At least that's not in the mythical time zone.
Greetings from CA, fellow west-coaster!