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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg@elizabethweill.bsky.social |
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Reporter @ The Appeal. she/her Covers: prison and jail conditions, wrongful convictions, in particular SBS cases. Tips: elizabeth@theappeal.org I don't really know how bluesky works.
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The horrific death of Lashawn Thompson last year and the frenzy around Trump's booking have propelled the Fulton County Jail into the national spotlight. But heightened scrutiny has done nothing to improve conditions at the facility, which is deadlier than ever, reports @elizabethweill.bsky.social.
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New from @nickwing.bsky.social and me for @theappeal.bsky.social: Incarcerated people are some of the most vulnerable victims of climate change. They're trapped in concrete and steel buildings with no say over what they wear, the temperatures of their showers, or how much cold water they can access.
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In the face of a warming future, advocates are fighting against political and bureaucratic resistance to provide relief to incarcerated people who are now among the earliest and most vulnerable victims of this crisis. Read more from @elizabethweill.bsky.social & @nickwing.bsky.social.
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“I could offer a kind of equation for leftists and liberals crossing over to the neofascist and authoritarian right that goes something like: narcissism (grandiosity) + social media addiction + midlife crisis ÷ public shaming = rightwing meltdown.”
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“The true situation of what happened, the number of cops involved in harming him, and the number of cops involved in covering it up was so massive that it wouldn’t have quieted the protests in the same way as saying that it was something that happened while the van was moving.” There it is.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
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Such an honor to share a byline with one of my favorite reporters and editors @nickwing.bsky.social.
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"Having this personal connection to nature felt special," Christopher Blackwell writes of his chance encounter with a family of nesting barn swallows. "For a few minutes, I could feel like a part of something much bigger than the closed world of this penitentiary."
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Meg O'Connor
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Florida prison staff are confiscating newspapers because they are afraid incarcerated people will use the word puzzles to send coded messages to each other. theappeal.org/florida-pris...
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
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I had the honor of interviewing journalist @jewstein3000.bsky.social, author of the new book, "They Killed Freddie Gray," for this week's @theappeal.bsky.social newsletter. “The prosecution suffered the usual pro-cop bias even though they were charging cops," she told me.
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A Florida prison refused to deliver copies of a local newspaper to an incarcerated subscriber, claiming that a puzzle game in the publication “may be used to create coded messages indecipherable by staff.”
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A newly enacted New Jersey law eliminates onerous fees imposed on people assigned counsel from the state public defender’s office. The measure is a victory, but “the work isn’t done,” advocates tell @elizabethweill.bsky.social. Among the issues: fees still apply to people tried in municipal courts.
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So much of what we've been told about Freddie Gray’s 2015 death at the hands of Baltimore police is wrong. In today's newsletter, @jewstein3000.bsky.social, author of "They Killed Freddie Gray," talks with @elizabethweill.bsky.social about the biggest misconceptions & how they became so widespread.
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Officials asserted that the puzzle, which appears next to the crossword, daily horoscopes, and “Dear Abby” advice columns, “may be used to create coded messages indecipherable by staff.” Read more from
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
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Rosa Jimenez was finally exonerated of a crime that did not occur. Countless others remain incarcerated. Like Jimenez, their prosecutions were based on junk science. My latest with editor Nick Wing for @theappeal.bsky.social.
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Earlier this week, Rosa Jimenez joined the more than 1,300 people who've been exonerated of crimes that never occurred. Countless others remain incarcerated, despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence. @elizabethweill.bsky.social has the latest on a handful of their cases.
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“The past 20 years, I have been fighting for my freedom, my innocence, and my children. Now I have a second fight,” said Jimenez in a @innocence press release, announcing her exoneration. ”I want to have a long, healthy life with my family, who I waited so long to be with again."
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In 2021, she was released from prison after Judge Karen Sage of the 299th Criminal District Court in Austin, Texas recommended that her habeas petition be granted.
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The child suffered serious brain damage and died three months later. Travis County, Texas, prosecutors charged Jimenez, with murder. The State claimed--wrongly--it was impossible for a child of that age to accidentally swallow a wad of five paper towels. The case rested entirely on that argument.
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After trying to clear his airways, she took him to her neighbor’s apartment for help. Another neighbor heard Jimenez screaming, came over, and called 911. Paramedics eventually dislodged what they later learned was a wad of paper towels from the child’s airways.
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
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@kira_lerner and I reported on her case in 2020. In January 2003, Jimenez was babysitting a 21-month-old when she noticed the boy was turning purple and having trouble breathing. At the time Jimenez was 20 years old, pregnant, and a mom to a 1 yr old.
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