Required reading: Matt Van Houten, Tompkins County DA, on the need to protect bail reform: lawmakers must reject “any and all efforts to remove the current standard… If we don’t protect bail reform, both justice and safety will be jeopardized.”
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Bail reform is working and helping NY families! Tell lawmakers in Albany to protect bail reform and prioritize evidence-based solutions that strengthen communities and advance public safety. #protectbailreform
NEW: The Legal Aid Society has released a statement urging lawmakers to reject @GovKathyHochul’s punitive and wrongheaded proposal to increase pre-trial detention and undermine New York’s successful #BailReform law.
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NYCDS calls on the legislature to hold the line and resist racist bail rollbacks.
Read our complete statement on the Gov's attempt to rollback bail in the budget here: https://t.co/Vub3Dv0CPb
Do you want to honor #MarvinMayfield today? He was a devoted organizer for bail reform and a survivor of Rikers. Take a moment RIGHT NOW to let @GovKathyHochul + legislators know that you oppose her plan to send more Black, brown, poor and working-class people to deathtrap jails.
This #TransDayOfVisibility, I'm asking everyone to lift up my beautiful baby sister Layleen Polanco, who died of a seizure in solitary confinement at Rikers.
We cannot allow @GovKathyHochul to gut the bail laws so more families suffer like mine has.
My statement.
**READ: The Bronx Defenders joins other defender offices and advocates in urging State lawmakers to reject @GovKathyHochul's bail proposal and protect thousands of New Yorkers from pre-trial torture.
Read the full statement here: https://t.co/wveqeOkXTX
Budgets are moral documents which spell out in black and white what our values are. The data is clear. Housing, mental health services, employment opportunities, and education keep people safe. Rolling back bail reform does not. #NoRollBacks
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