Individuals incarcerated at a Texas facility have communicated that they will be fasting on Friday in solidarity with family members impacted by incarceration who have organized a rally on the state capitol steps.
For now, the details are being held back, but families have heard that as many as 200 incarcerated people have planned the act in solidarity with the Texas Families for Justice rally.
They are showing their support for impacted family members, who, over the past six months, have been organizing people across the state to speak out. In an effort to build a unified grassroots base to push back on the impact mass incarceration has on communities, a coalition of family groups has been working together to raise funds for shirts and bus rentals, hold late night sign-making sessions, and facilitate dozens of outreach meetings and conference calls across the state.
They are fighting for a fair, just, and humane criminal justice system. But most of all they are fighting to keep families together.
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Do a solidarity tweet: 150,000 ppl incarcerated in TX state prisons and 68,000 in county jails. That is way too many. #txfamiliesforjustice http://texasfamiliesforjustice.org
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