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Department of Justice Opens up Trousdale Investigation
As a result of years of writing, filing complaints and lawsuits, calling, protesting and other forms of agitation and advocacy, the...
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- Jun 12
- 2 min
The Community Responds to MNPD Whistleblower Complaints
This week, several community groups got together to demand accountability and transparency from Metro government in light of the recent...
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- May 12
- 2 min
113th Legislative Session Wrap-Up
This past session has closed. What happened with the bills we supported? Here is a brief summary of where the bills we were interested in...
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Theeda
- Apr 8
- 2 min
HB2380: Call for Action!
The Tennessee General Assembly is still in session and we are still fighting for our rights. One of the bills we are supporting is HB2380...
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Theeda
- Feb 16
- 1 min
Support HB2821/SB2768: Life Sentence Reform
Huge thank you and shout out to our colleague and fellow freedom fighter, Rahim Buford and the Bridges to Care family for making sure...
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Theeda
- Feb 14
- 3 min
AWTN Legislative Priorities
While we are not sponsoring any bills this year, we are watching several. There are few we support but unfortunately, there are more we...
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Theeda
- Nov 16, 2023
- 1 min
'Be the Change' Creates Network of Change in Tennessee Prisons
Meet Tavaria Merritt and the "Be the Change" community As published in Autostraddle, June 13, 2023 "Today, Be the Change offers programs...
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Theeda
- Nov 9, 2023
- 1 min
The Right to Consensual Sex in Prison
An article by our friend, Tony Vick, published in FilterMag "Criminalizing sex doesn’t mean it goes away. It means people do it less...
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Theeda
- Nov 9, 2023
- 1 min
Voices from Solitary
An article from our friend, Tony Vick, published in Solitary Watch "In the cold, clammy chamber of solitary confinement, I feel isolated...
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Theeda
- Oct 30, 2023
- 1 min
Interview with Shawn'a Hatcher
AbolitionWorksTN Founding Organizer Shawn'a Hatcher talks about her life and work. "Shawn'a said her idea for starting Rychus Rydz and...
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Theeda
- Oct 30, 2023
- 1 min
On Resilience
"In the criminal system, having your life constrained and restricted, even after your sentence is over, has become a fact of life."...
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- Apr 7, 2023
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Community Event Announcement!
Movie Screening - Angola: Do You Hear Us? When: April 20, 2023, 6:00PM Where: Scarritt Bennett Center, Harambee Auditorium Join No...
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Theeda Murphy
- Mar 12, 2023
- 3 min
Tennessee Kids Need Care and Support Not Punishment
WHY MANDATORY REFERRAL OF YOUTH IS HARMFUL THE CASE AGAINST HB1029/SB1159 and HB1104/SB608 The Tennessee State Legislature continues its...
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- Feb 3, 2021
- 4 min
IS IT ANY WONDER I BECAME A VIOLENT OFFENDER?
I was born in 1967, the third child of unstable, poor parents. My father was a womanizer, but my mother loved the ground he walked on....
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- May 17, 2019
- 3 min
Witnessing the Death of Redemption
A good man, a transformed man, was murdered by the State of Tennessee on May 16th. It has been an exhausting week of sacred struggle...
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- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
Victory to Amend the TN Constitution
On April 22, 2019, after years of work, SJR159 passed, which is the first step in making the abolition of slavery universal in Tennessee,...
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- Mar 28, 2016
- 3 min
Not so long ago I was homeless and lost
Not so long ago I was homeless and lost. This wasn’t the Jesus’ salvation kind of lost, but the sort where my child-like self got trapped...
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- Feb 28, 2016
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Facts about Tennessee’s 51-year life sentences and why it should be repealed
Tennessee is the only state in the U.S. with two life without parole sentences. HB1128/SB1181 seeks to change that, and here’s why. In...
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- Apr 17, 2015
- 5 min
The Death of Jason Toll
Jane Luna is the mother of Jason Toll, the 33 year old man killed by corrections officers during a cell extraction at Riverbend prison...
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