The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE.

The vote was unanimous.

🎉🎉🎉

A shameful display from the Jail Oversight Board.
I’m not surprised at this point, but disappointed. Especially in Barbara Griffin who seems more interested in appeasing judges and cops than the welfare of incarcerated people who disproportionately look like her. #jailoversightboard

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Worker pay in the ACJ starts today!
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Billions for war but can't even feed kids here.

No more money for war.

Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws?
Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

Another person died in Allegheny County Jail yesterday. A 55-year-old man, found unresponsive.

We mainly use jails to hold people for the crime of mental illness, substance use disorder, or poverty.

This needs to stop. Decarcerate now.

Video shows the moment a federal agent shot and killed a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis.

The victim was armed and resisting, according to the Department of Homeland Security, and it's unclear what led up to the deadly shooting.

Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3LTcTwH

Another murder by immigration enforcement in my district.

I am absolutely horrified that federal agents are targeting and executing our residents instead of protecting them.

ICE and CBP must leave Minnesota immediately. Kristi Noem must be impeached. Enough.

Every December 21st, we honor the individuals who have lost their lives while experiencing homelessness with bronze plaques installed below a highway overpass. Join us as we pay tribute to the 29 individuals who have died in Allegheny County while experiencing homelessness in 2024 and 2025.

The Many over the Money!

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The jailers will never out organize us

I'm honored to be one of the storytellers at tomorrow’s storytelling event in support of Kathleen Madonna-Emmerling, candidate for Allegheny County Council District 1. Join us! #morethanwords

Allegheny County celebrates its 237th birthday today! From our rich history to vibrant communities, we're proud to call this incredible place home.

Outburst captured during Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board meeting; what led up to it The president judge of Allegheny County caught screaming at two board members during a meeting discussing issues with the jail.

"I was really shocked... She threatened to have us removed, while she was simultaneously defending this man’s use of the n-word; she was silencing us." - @man-eternally.bsky.social

I know we elect these judges… I wish the road toward accountability was easier. The power trip some of them have… and how it shows up as horrid racism and classism when their power is questioned or confronted.

And I find it really gross to see that preservation of the status quo is more important to Judge Evashavik than justice in the room. Impossible not to notice who she’ll threaten to send from the room, and who she’ll defend.

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A real one

At the Jail Oversight Board meeting today, Judge Evashavik paused the meeting to offer support to a white man, John Kenstowicz, who emailed the full unredacted n word three times to County Council, earning a rebuke from the council and upsetting Black community members

Happy Labor Day!!

While you’re enjoying your cookout, don’t forget that workers in the Allegheny County Jail STILL work 7 days a week, 10-15 hour days, and make $0.00 per hour!!!!!!

I’ve been to a lot of funerals and I’ve never witnessed the level of community and care that I’ve witnessed at an Islamic funeral.

I have never seen respect and love for the deceased like I’ve seen from the Muslim community.

Well deserved

We voted on whether or not to extend the $125 per month dispersments to January. The deciding vote that prevented it was cast by the controller's illegal designee

JOB Update:
The jail oversight board voted to continue the commissary support with a reduction to $100. The funds will now also be dispersed on the first and the 15th instead of only once on the first of the month. The board will have to vote to continue the fund starting in February of next year.

This Wednesday, the Jail Oversight Board will be voting to determine the fate of commissary support given to incarcerated folks in the ACJ.
Most of the board who wanna stop the support intentionally skipped the regular August meeting and scheduled this at a time where most people can't attend. #job

Pittsburgh homicides drop to 8-year low Homicides in Pittsburgh fell 37% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2024.

Pittsburgh homicides drop to an 8 year low but you will never hear the people who pushed him out of office give Mayor Ed Gainey the credit he deserves.

This is the power of a Black mayor.

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Brian Davis, the racist Allegheny County Jail corrections officer who was caught on video brandishing a barbed wire covered bat that said “N*gger beater” has been fired.

Meet Brian Davis, a corrections officer at the Allegheny County Jail since 2018. As he shows off a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire which he, named “nigger beater”, I can’t help but imagine the interactions he’s had with the thousands of black people he’s come across in the ACJ.
#racist

It’s #BlackWomensEqualPayDay – a reminder that Black women are systematically underpaid for the same work as their counterparts.

Black women deserve better, and today we recommit to fighting for economic security and equal pay.