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Protect Your People Public Safety & Justice Committee Community Report: A Sharing of Direct Experience, Analysis, and Critique of the Santa Clara County Criminal Legal System from January-August 2025
Editor's Note: The Protect Your People Public Safety & Justice Committee Community Report was assembled by De-Bug families and organizers...
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Protect Your People Public Safety & Justice Committee Community Report: A Sharing of Direct Experience, Analysis, and Critique of the Santa Clara County Criminal Legal System from January-August 2025
Editor's Note: The Protect Your People Public Safety & Justice Committee Community Report was assembled by De-Bug families and organizers...
SV De-Bug staff
Sep 181 min read
Silicon Valley De-Bug Prisoners Human Rights Advocacy Report 2016-2024
Our Process The majority of those incarcerated and their family members are afraid to file grievances within the jail. They fear...
SV De-Bug staff
Sep 1231 min read
The Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring… A Broken Promise
illo : AD Avila July 31, 2024 To: County of Santa Clara, Board of Supervisors 70 West Hedding Street East Wing, 10th Floor San Jose, CA...
Jose Valle
Jul 305 min read
If Santa Clara County Wants to Reduce the Number of People Held in Jail - Bring Back Zero Dollar Bail
Editor's Note: Raj Jayadev outlines why Santa Clara County's use of Zero Dollar Bail during the pandemic is still a reality and should be...
Raj Jayadev
Jul 216 min read
Responsibility to Shelter Will Lead to Police Violence, Arrests and Incarceration Beyond the Charge Named in the Policy, and Immigration Consequences
Editor's note: Below is a letter submitted to the San Jose City Council before the recent 2025-2026 budget vote that included the...
Raj Jayadev
Jun 174 min read
The Jail Population is Decreasing, Our People are Coming Home and We Will Continue to Resist a New Jail
In the new presidential regime Author J.M. Valle calls out the lies that crime is rampant and urges the county of Santa Clara to investigate
J.M. Valle
Mar 283 min read
Build Our Fortresses and Define the Era
Illo by AD Avila I was in Norristown, Pennsylvania a couple days after the election. I went to celebrate the five year anniversary of...
Raj Jayadev
Dec 17, 20246 min read
DE-BUG X ARCH CITY
This is a recap of De-Bug's week in St. Louis. Meet the people who teamed up with Arch City Defenders to file & WIN historic lawsuits in St.Louis to end debtors prison.
SV De-Bug staff
Mar 8, 20172 min read
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