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Overheating the forgotten by Tony Cobb


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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Tony Cobb, and describes the Extreme heat and human rights violations in Florida’s prisons.


Tony Cobb is an inside prison journalist based in Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution. He reports on prison conditions and writes about prison reform through personal essays. He has written for Prism, Scalawag, and the Prison Journalism Project.


What can you do?


Contact:

  • Jeff Brandes, former Senator at The Florida Policy Project.
  • Yvonne Hayes Hinson, Democratic house member.
  • Connie Edson, Inmate Advocate.
  • Support Tony financially and/or contact him: Anthony Cobb, dc#194479, through jpay.com


Watch

  • 13th, a documentary which explains the prison industrial complex.


Read: 

  • When they call you a terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
  • Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell


Articles on the topic of abolition:

  • Why police will never be the answer to gendered violence
  • Why we need creativity and humanity in our prison food
  • ‘Building back differently’: a case for climate justice through abolition   
  • Don’t let the idea of abolition overwhelm you 


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