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Many other places are releasing people from jail & locking up fewer people to stop the churn & spread of COVID-19, says Scott Roberts of @ColorOfChange. Yet New York is considering doing the opposite with bail rollbacks...We need to be focused on how we can best protect NYers.https://twitter.com/BklynDefender/status/1240277919370481665 …
Dr. Robert Cohen, who has worked in jail and prison healthcare for decades, recalls the discovery of the AIDS epidemic in 1981 -- and how it took 15 years for prisons and jails to begin to address it. New York must do better now, including by releasing vulnerable people.
Akeem Browder, whose brother Kalief suffered years in solitary confinement pre-trial as a teenager, talks about solitary confinement as a public health crisis. Solitary broke his mental health. It's not a safe answer to infectious disease.
#NoRollbacks #HALTsolitary
A critical point by Assembly Health Committee Chair @DickGottfried: "Bail reform has always been a social justice issue. COVID-19 is perhaps reminding us that it was also a public health issue, and one that won't go away when COVID-19 does."
#NoRollbacks
A wake-up call from @AssemblyLWalker: Her office is receiving a surge in calls from constituents about prison & jail staff brutalizing their loved ones. The tension is rising. Visits are banned. After a decades-long fight, we passed pre-trial reforms. We cannot have rollbacks!
Assembly Member @MrMikeBlake gets to the point: Bail rollbacks would mean more Black & brown people in jail & for longer. It means locking them in places we know aren't safe. #NoRollbacks. We're not going to make a health crisis worse. Not going to make criminal injustice worse.
Assembly Member @WalterTMosley gives a shout out to @AssemblyLWalker for her leadership on bail reform & reminds us that we're asked to stay home, but people detained pre-trial often lose their housing. We can't have bail rollbacks.
He also lifts up #LessIsMore & #HALTsolitary.
Assembly Member @CatalinaCruzNY says: Now is NOT the time to play politics. Now is the time to protect vulnerable people. Bail reform rollbacks would put more people in jeopardy. Just yesterday, an officer at Rikers tested positive for COVID-19. #NoRollbacks
Jon of @VOCALNewYork says: Any DOC staff person who contracts COVID-19 has safeguards and can get better. Yet thousands and thousands incarcerated aren’t even being provided had sanitizer. This is one of the worst and most toxic public health crises in generations. #NoRollbacks
Assembly Member @HarveyforNY says: We need resources for prevention. We need resources for mental health. Not more jailing. Speaker @CarlHeastie has been a real champion for protecting bail reform. We will push to make sure there are no bail rollbacks.
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