Twitter

@JusticeReform is a great source of prison-related news and articles on Twitter. It is run by Pat Nolan, Vice President of the Prison Fellowship, also a worthy organization. Check it out on Twitter: @JusticeReform and on the web: Prisonfellowship.org

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This is the Twitter stream for Death Penalty Focus, one of the largest organizations in the USA devoted to the abolition of the death penalty. From their web site:
We believe that the death penalty is an ineffective, cruel, and simplistic response to the serious and complex problem of violent crime. It institutionalizes discrimination against [...]

Kathryn Hamoudah runs the Twitter account for Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) and does a great job of keeping you up to date on events, action you can take and updates on death penalty cases, such as the Troy Davis case. This is an extremely informative Twitter stream and a worthy organization. [...]

@koffietime is a Twitter account run by Mary Neal, Founder/Director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill. Mary’s brother, Larry, passed away while incarcerated with paranoid schizophrenia and heart and respiratory conditions. Mary has become an advocate for the mentally ill in prison and uses her twitter account to post information on the topic and [...]

Carol Leonard of Prisonmovement’s Weblog, tweets a consistent stream of information regarding all prison issues, from wrongful convictions, innocence and exonerations, to the death penalty abolition movement. If you follow her, you’ll get statistics, articles, breaking news and ways that you can take action to change things. Even if you’re unsure of where you stand [...]

This post marks the first in a series of amazing prison-related Twitter users to follow. The first in this series is @brookpete who authors the blog, Prison Photography. The blog is an absolutely amazing one to subscribe to that posts mind-blowing pictures from all walks of prison life. From super max prisons, to concentration camps, [...]