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Home Articles posted by Ryan Dratler

Love in the Shadows

  Love endures even in the most unlikely circumstances. This is the story of a nurse and the man she fell for behind the bars of New Jersey’s shadow prison.

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Ryan Dratler April 18, 2025 April 24, 2025Podcast 1

Debtors’ Prison

Debtors’ prisons are supposedly a relic of America’s past. Yet this Texas shadow prison will keep you incarcerated until you save up enough money doing menial work for slave wages.

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Ryan Dratler April 18, 2025 April 24, 2025Podcast 0

Most of Them Will Die Here

Trapped within Minnesota’s shadow prison, over 600 people held indefinitely after their prison sentence are more likely to die in the so-called “treatment” program than ever be released.

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Ryan Dratler April 14, 2025 April 24, 2025Podcast 0

Incommunicado

Discover how two Texas families have had all communication forcibly cut off from their loved ones by the state’s shadow prison.

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Ryan Dratler April 14, 2025 April 24, 2025Podcast 1
  • Our vision for a just future

    1. Abolish pre-crime preventative detention laws

     

    2. Free our friends and loved ones from dehumanizing labels

     

    3. Realign our justice system with the values of restoration and reintegration

     

     

    Just Future Project is a new initiative focused on challenging pre-crime preventative detention laws. We are a people-driven grassroots advocacy campaign dedicated to building a movement of community members demanding an end to indefinite detention regimes.

     

    Why Is This Important?

    Pre-crime preventative detention systems are a dangerous departure from the traditional values of our legal system.

     

    We believe in justice, that persons who have caused harm may be held accountable for their actions. But justice also demands proportionality and due process, elements essential to distinguish justice from mere vengeance. The goal of any true system of justice must be restoration and re-integration, not the perpetual containment and incapacitation that have come to define the U.S. criminal legal system.

     

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