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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 1d

Join us on Oct. 22 for a webinar with @prisonpolicy.org & local organizers to discuss how jail expansion happens and how we can stop it.
Register → safetybound.org/demands

Demands — Safety Bound

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 1d

We’re demanding that sheriffs reduce jail populations, support alternatives to incarceration, and reject jail expansion.

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 1d

Jail expansion drains public funds, harms communities, and doesn’t increase public safety - all while benefitting law enforcement budgets & private contractors who profit off of building new jails.

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 1d

Jail populations have skyrocketed in recent decades. In response, sheriffs push to build new jails despite persistent issues with existing jails (inhumane conditions! staffing shortages!) and data showing that jail expansion only makes things worse.

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 1d

Sheriffs keep pushing to expand jails. We’re pushing back.

Demand 2 in our 7 Demands to Reimagine the Sheriff is: Towards Freedom - calling on sheriffs to reduce jail populations & stop jail expansion.
A quick breakdown: 🧵

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 5d

Bigger jails does not mean safer communities. Too many people are locked up who shouldn't be and sheriffs have the power to change that.

Join us on 10/22 to learn how to fight jail expansion in your community.
Register: safetybound.org/demands

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 6d

Have you lost a loved one in jail?
We're launching a fellowship program for directly-impacted family members ready to join a national movement to end jail deaths.

Learn more & apply → safetybound.org/ending-jail-deaths

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 22d

Local jails - mostly run by sheriffs - are key to the Trump Admin's cruel mass deportation machine.

Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 23d

An alarming share of ICE arrests rely on collaborations with local law enforcement – even in places that are "sanctuary cities"

Since January, 45% of all ICE arrests were transfers from local jails:

Graph showing that jails working with ICE led to the early expansion of arrests in 2025.

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 23d

TODAY! Join us for the first webinar in our 7 Demands to Reimagine the Sheriff series as we dive into Demand 1: Towards Accountability.

It’s time to hold our sheriffs accountable to end jail deaths.

Register here to learn how:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Safety Bound's 7 Demands to Reimagine the Sheriff: Ending Jail Deaths. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Every year, hundreds of people die in U.S. jails from overdoses, suicides, neglect, and abuse. Many are being held pretrial—that is, they have not been convicted of any crime and are simply being held...

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · 26d

Join us this MONDAY (9/22) to learn more about the severe and worsening crisis of jail deaths, how sheriffs can stop them, and our strategy to hold them accountable.

Register here --> us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Aug 25

Jail deaths are a growing crisis & sheriffs have the power to stop them.

Our 1st of 7 Demands to Reimagine the Sheriff: Accountability.

Join our 9/22 webinar to see what real change looks like. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 29d

A reminder as the National Guard is weaponized against more cities:

Policing & crime do not go hand in hand. Incarceration rates in every single U.S. state are out of line with the entire world, and this disparity is not explainable by differences in crime or “violent crime.”

Scatterplot showing that the U.S. incarcerates more of its population than any other nation – including nations that have similar or higher rates of crime. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 15

Sheriffs ≠ safety.
Have you read our 7 bold demands to dismantle systems of harm and build real safety for our communities?

Read & take action: safetybound.org/demands

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Sep 12

“ICE can’t do what they need to do under the current circumstances without sheriffs and our jails.” 🎯

Your locally elected sheriffs play an essential role in ICE’s mass incarceration & deportation agenda – and probably make money off of it.

Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers (Gift Article)

Jails play a growing role in immigrant detention, housing thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime.

www.nytimes.com

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 10

Learn more about how to hold sheriffs accountable to help stop deportations:
www.safetybound.org/stop-deporta...

Stop Deportations — Safety Bound

Sheriffs will play a large role in deportations. Communities can demand that they don't.

www.safetybound.org

Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sheriffs are at the heart of the Trump admin’s cruel deportation agenda.

Local jails play an integral role in efforts to abduct, detain and deport millions of immigrants and profit off of doing so.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers

Jails play a growing role in immigrant detention, housing thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime.

www.nytimes.com

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Sep 9

From increased ICE raids to escalating deportations, the US is experiencing a crimmigration crisis.

We aren't experts on the subject, but we can point you in the right direction. Here's a resource roundup on the criminalization of immigrants:

www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/04...

Crimmigration resource roundup: Where to find data and resources on the criminalization of immigrants

A list of valuable online resources from organizations and agencies focused on immigration detention.

www.prisonpolicy.org

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join our webinar on 9/22 to learn more why this is a growing crisis across the country and what it will take to end jail deaths:
www.safetybound.org/demands

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 8

Too often, jails (typically run by local sheriffs) are shameful replacements for medical and social services where mistreatment like overcrowding, neglect, and violence lead to preventable in-custody deaths.

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 8

More than 1,000 people die in the custody of sheriffs every year.

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Vera Institute of Justice @vera.org · Aug 29

Our leaders must take comprehensive steps to stop deaths in city jails, including:

❗️Reducing the jail population
❗️Allowing the new remediation manager to use the full powers of their appointment
❗Right sizing the DOC

Learn more: www.vera.org/news/nyc-jai...

Ten People Have Died in NYC DOC Custody This Year

Ardit Billa is the tenth person to die in New York City Department of Correction (DOC) custody or shortly after being released this year. On August 23,…

www.vera.org

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 4

Take action: Call your sheriff today and demand they protect our communities, not profit off of abducting our immigrant neighbors.
📱➡️ CallYourSheriff.com

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Trump admin is offering to pay local sheriffs to help ICE target immigrants & tear families apart.

But they don’t have to say yes. Sheriffs work for us, the people who elect them. We can hold them accountable.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Trump administration will pay local law enforcement to help ICE

Starting Oct. 1, DHS said participating agencies will receive full coverage for the salary and benefits of trained 287(g) officers.

www.newsweek.com

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Aug 29

The system is armed with media teams – for small orgs fighting for change, that can make it hard to get coverage

We're partnering with @justjournalism.bsky.social to change that. This webinar will help advocates looking to take the "lede" in the criminal legal system
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Infographic with webinar details: Sept. 18, 2025 at 3pm ET. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wjR6_sVoTUWgBEWnwElKSg

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Safety Bound @safetybound.bsky.social · Aug 29

We deserve real safety, not harm disguised as law enforcement.

Read our 7 Demands to Reimagine the Sheriff ⬇️
safetybound.org/demands

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Aug 26

Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.

U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.

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