@urbnscl 'Crime-control profiteering', the fundamentally neo-liberal Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. "Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings." - John Wright
War on the poor profiteers and your health? President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on police, prisons and the courts. @UniteThePoor themarshallproject.org/2022/09/07/how-federal-covid-relief-flows-to-the-criminal-justice-system
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Copy of Tweet: Sacramento County spent $104 mill in federal covid-19 relief on the sheriff's payroll. It spent $4 million of the pandemic money on public health and medical supplies. @ayoonhendricks