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11/23/2021

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10/29/2021

10/27/2021

We at Project Mainline would like to introduce you to Ms. Sue Binder. She's a former mental health coordinator for Corrections Corporation of America (now Core Civic) where she worked for 13 years. She holds two Master's Degrees, one in psychology and one. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Addiction Counselor as well as a Behavioral Health Therapist

Ms. Binder penned a book called "Bodies in Beds: Getting Business Out of Prison" where she explains how business is a determent to corrections. It is a very interesting read and an inside look at the system.

Her goal with this book is to show why industry should not play a role in corrections. She points out how co-occurring disorders like mental health and addiction need to be addressed. She makes practical suggestions as to what should be happening to bring rehabilitation and treatment into the correctional system.

If you have someone inside a correctional facility, this book is a must have. It will help you understand parts of their environment that you otherwise would likely never learn about. If you have an incarcerated loved one who suffers from mental health or addiction issues, this book is a must have for both you and your incarcerated loved one. This your opportunity to learn how these systems really work from the perspective of an insider.

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10/25/2021

We have to do Better:

66% of women who cannot afford bail have minor children. The average annual income for a man held without bail in county jail is $16,000 and for a woman is $11,000.

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10/21/2021

We at Project Mainline would like to introduce you to Ms. Sue Binder. She's a former mental health coordinator for Corrections Corporation of America (now Core Civic) where she worked for 13 years. She holds two Master's Degrees, one in psychology and one in Humanities. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Addiction Counselor as well as a Behavioral Health Therapist

Ms. Binder penned a book called "Bodies in Beds: Getting Business Out of Prison" where she explains how business is a determent to corrections. It is a very interesting read and an inside look at the system.

She's done extensive research on corrections as an industry and provides an inside perspective of how the goal is keeping beds full rather than justice, corrections, rehabilitation, or public safety.

If you have someone inside a correctional facility, this book is a must have. It will help you understand parts of their environment that you otherwise would likely never learn about. If you have an incarcerated loved one who suffers from mental health or addiction issues, this book is a must-have for both you and you're incarcerated loved one. This is your opportunity to learn how these systems really work from the perspective of an insider.

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10/19/2021

Over the past several months, people in this country have been demanding justice reform. We have repeatedly witnessed atrocities and watched as the police/prosecutors ignore all but the cases that are caught on video and get national media attention. Aside from the abolishment movement, there seems to be little focus amongst the outrage. We all want action right now when it comes to justice reform but there doesn't seem to be a realistic plan for what that would look like. I dislike the police as much as anybody but with that said, I still think that my mother should have someone that she can call for help if someone is trying to break into her house in the middle of the night. The Brennan Center for Justice recently released a policy report for 2020-2021 with practical and meaningful steps we can (and should) take in order to move justice reform forward in a way that nearly anybody can get behind.

• Enact the Reverse Mass Incarceration Act.
Federal grants help shape criminal justice policy at the state and local levels. For decades these grants have subsidized the growth of incarceration. To reverse that flow, Congress can pass the Reverse Mass Incarceration Act, a bill that has been introduced in two separate congressional sessions. This bill would dedicate $20 billion over 10 years to states that reduce both crime and incarceration, reshaping state and local policy.

• Place strict limits on permissible police use of deadly and nondeadly force.
Congress should pass legislation that would rein in police use of force. For example, holds that restrict airways should be banned, and less-lethal weapons and techniques of control should be reversed for extraordinary circumstances.

• Require use-of-force reporting to the federal government.
The Justice Department should build a comprehensive database that is accessible to the public by mandating use-of-force reporting by all law enforcement agencies and making federal support to those agencies conditioned on their compliance.

• Amend 18 U.S.C. SS 242.
Congress should amend 18 U.S.C. SS 242 to lower the burden of proof in cases where civil rights may have been violated, to better equip federal prosecutors to hold law enforcement accountable for wrongful acts. The willfulness standard in SS 242 should be explicitly lowered to include knowing and reckless civil rights violations, at the same time that the law is amended to more clearly enumerate the types of force that will trigger criminal liability - including, for example, the use of chokeholds.

• Reinvigorate DOJ pattern-or-practice investigations.
The Justice Department should resume pattern-or-practice investigations that focus on systemic problematic behavior by a police department and should support legislation that would provide subpoena power for such investigations.

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10/16/2021

We at Project Mainline would like to introduce you to Ms. Sue Binder. She's a former mental health coordinator for Corrections Corporation of America (now Core Civic) where she worked for 13 years. She holds two Master's Degrees, one in psychology and one in Humanities. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Addiction Counselor as well as a Behavioral Health Therapist

Ms. Binder penned a book called "Bodies in Beds: Getting Business Out of Prison" where she explains how business is a determent to corrections. It is a very interesting read and an inside look at the system.

She's done extensive research on corrections as an industry and provides an inside perspective of how the goal is keeping beds full rather than justice, corrections, rehabilitation, or public safety.

If you have someone inside a correctional facility, this book is a must-have. It will help you understand parts of their environment that you otherwise would likely never learn about. If you have an incarcerated loved one who suffers from mental health or addiction issues, this book is a must-have for both you and you're incarcerated loved one. This is your opportunity to learn how these systems really work from the perspective of an insider.

Here's the link to get the book:

Bodies in Beds: Why Business Should Stay Out of Prisons

10/11/2021

We have to do Better:

As of may of 2020, 460,000 of the 612,00 people held in county jails were there pretrial, meaning that they have not been convicted of a crime. This has to change. Prosecutors have long since used the excuse of being a "flight risk" as a way to hold people so that they have no ability to defend themselves. This is one of the many harms of pretrial detention.

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10/08/2021

October 2020 "The share of people held pretrial in Indian country jails increased by 20 percentage points (an 80% increase) from 1999 to 2018, and the average length of stay in Indian country jails has doubled since 2002."

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10/06/2021

We at Project Mainline would like to introduce you to Ms. Sue Binder. She's a former mental health coordinator for Corrections Corporation of America (now Core Civic) where she worked for 13 years. She holds two Master's Degrees, one in psychology and one. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Addiction Counselor as well as a Behavioral Health Therapist

Ms. Binder penned a book called "Bodies in Beds: Getting Business Out of Prison" where she explains how business is a determent to corrections. It is a very interesting read and an inside look at the system.

In her book, she talks about how she, like most people, had initially the expectation that all incarcerated people were "bad guys" and then over time realized that several individuals were innocent. She learned that very few of the others were as terrible as the public is led to believe.

If you have someone inside a correctional facility, this book is a must have. It will help you understand parts of their environment that you otherwise would likely never learn about. If you have an incarcerated loved one who suffers from mental health or addiction issues, this book is a must have for both you and your incarcerated loved one. This is your opportunity to learn how these systems really work from the perspective of an insider.

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10/04/2021

Throughout my incarceration, I've heard all sorts of false information, rumors, and outright lies about the benefits you can receive while incarcerated.

One day, an old-timer that had no people left in the free world came to me and asked if I could have someone on the streets look up information about one of the Social Security rumors going around.

I had some papers sent in and within seconds of reviewing them learned that nobody had any idea what they were talking about. I posted the papers on the board where people could see them. I personally say the rumor spreaders reading them and then heard them telling people that the information was untrue. This information, of course, was pulled directly from the Social Security website. I knew then, that the only people who would ever know the truth would be the people who sought it out from a reliable source.

Since many incarcerated people don't have a reliable source, I decided to provide the information myself. The information contained in this book is directly from the Social Security Administration's website and the Veterans Association's website as of 2021.

Turning Point Social Security, Supplemental Benefits, Veterans Benefits, and What You Need to Know While Incarcerated.
By Darren Po***ck

This book is now available on Amazon. Order now and have it shipped directly to your incarcerated loved one.

https://www.amazon.com/Security-Supplemental-Benefits-Veterans-Incarcerated/dp/1639723374/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=turning+point+social+security&qid=1633354058&sr=8-5

09/30/2021

As a senator in the 1980's and '90s, President Joe Biden led the fight of the war on drugs. He spearheaded mandatory minimum sentences and other harsh penalties that led to the population explosion of the American prison system. Now partnered with the most prolific prosecutor in California's history, the administration has been forced to acknowledge that they have got some things wrong. They however now have the chance to right those wrongs and to do it without the steps of going through congress. They can do this through their vast power to pardon and commutate sentences. The question is, will they? Like their predecessors, they are much more likely to focus on other aspects of the job and put meaningful justice reform on the back burner. The uproar for justice reform has seemed to pass with the election of the new president and since it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, that is a sad prospect for those of us who realize that almost nothing came of it. Certainly not meaningful reform. Even the use of pardon and commutation powers do little to change the culture of arresting our way out of our problems. Unfortunately, it's likely going to take another public tragedy to get people reinvigorated and even that without a clear direction will lead to no meaningful reform. Meaningful reform isn't likely to come from a trend. I feel that if people were truly interested in making a change, they wouldn't lose interest in it as soon as it gets cold outside. If you were not in it for the social media likes prove it by showing your support for groups like Campaign Zero, Brennan Institute for Justice, Prison Policy Initiative, Famm, and even smaller operations like Project Mainline.

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