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[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Other times, they are shelters. But in all cases, where people with disabilities are released without necessary supports, they are placed into a cycle of transincarceration without a meaningful chance at staying in the community. This trend must end, in Illinois and elsewhere.

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Imagine a transitional housing network that turns disabled people away, and sends them back to prison, because it, as a matter of policy, "does not provide disability accommodations."

That is the situation in Illinois's transitional housing network.

[National Center for Law and Economic Justice @NCLEJustice]

We are suing the Illinois Department of Corrections and private contractors to secure critical disability accommodations for a disabled individual on Mandatory Supervised Release. https://t.co/VQXplxVZQW

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Illinois's discriminatory transitional housing practices are a part of a national trend in which carceral agencies release people from prison to environments that set them up to fail by refusing to accommodate them. Sometimes these are "halfway houses" or "treatment programs."

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Here's the piece I've always wanted to write, theorizing and historicizing NYS DOCCS's refusal to implement solitary reform statutes! Thanks, @HarvLRev, for publishing! https://t.co/li1CJnnEFF

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Very excited to be publishing a piece in @HarvLRev Forum this spring, with my good friend Riley Doyle Evans, defining and explaining this "administrative nullification" idea.

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Our statement decrying NYSCOPBA, DOCCS, and the Governor for using a phony strike as a justification to torture incarcerated people who are predominantly Black and poor 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[National Center for Law and Economic Justice @NCLEJustice]

The New York State DOCCS has indefinitely suspended provisions of the HALT act which limits the use of solitary confinement. We are vehemently opposed to this suspension, which endangers the lives of incarcerated people. Read our full statement: https://t.co/FekhAwLmNk

[#HALTsolitary — Go to bit.ly/EndSolitaryNY @NYCAIC]

DISGUSTING: Many incarcerated people paid in blood for the passage of the HALT Solitary Confinement Law. Deaths and torment in solitary inspired a supermajority of NY lawmakers to enact the law. Gov. Hochul is now purporting to illegally suspend parts of the law. Our statement:

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Very excited to be publishing a piece in @HarvLRev Forum this spring, with my good friend Riley Doyle Evans, defining and explaining this "administrative nullification" idea.

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

For fifteen years, DOCCS administratively nullified HALT’s precursor—the SHU Exclusion Law. History is now repeating itself.

[Yiannis @YiannisExarchos]

I happen to consider Ambrose Akinmusire @amBROSEire as the most gifted jazz trumpeter of his generation. But in his new album HONEY FROM A WINTER STONE he takes his creativity into a whole new level. He pays tribute to the tragic genius of composer Julius Eastman and his "organic music" and navigates with total freedom between jazz, hip-hop, poetry and classical music. But, unlike what usually happens in such ambitious projects, the result here is truly and consistently moving. If you listen to this brilliant record and get interested in the criminally neglected music of Julius Eastman, the 4 records with works of his released by New Amsterdam is a good start.

[National Center for Law and Economic Justice @NCLEJustice]

We’re very excited to welcome Stefen Short to the NCLEJ team as Special Counsel for Disability Justice Projects! Learn more about our efforts to advance justice for people with disabilities at https://t.co/AkGzVwKgrr.

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Excited to be speaking at RebLaw this year with two incomparable advocates -- List Ben-Moshe and @hamzasaldana614 of @RAPPcampaign, which I am privileged to call a former client! Hope to see some of you there. 🙏🏾

https://t.co/5oYz1BK0RC

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Prison-to-nursing home discharges are often unnecessary transinstitutionalization. Our client was ultimately released to a community based residential program after spending two years in prison beyond his parole date waiting for a nursing home placement.

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Thanks @sarahkliff for this piece addressing the prolonged confinement of paroled ppl w/ complex medical needs. It features a case we filed for a person who did not need nursing home care upon release but remained in custody bc the state said he did.

https://t.co/9VctRcDwqv

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

RAPP nails it. Carceral systems exist to enact racist violence in all its forms. There is no "transparency" or "accountability" that will change that--it's the whole point. We must dismantle these systems root and branch, and we have the power to do it.

[Release Aging People in Prison Campaign @RAPPcampaign]

RAPP’s leadership & members have collectively survived centuries of incarceration––centuries of the state’s racist violence, as depicted in the horrific videos released today of guards at Marcy Prison murdering Robert Brooks with their bare hands. We have a few thoughts to share:

[Survived & Punished NY @survivepunishNY]

There is only one clemency scandal NYers should be concerned about right now:

@GovKathyHochul's shameless, cowardly abdication of her responsibility to use her clemency powers. We're especially disgusted by her betrayal in refusing to grant clemency to criminalized survivors.

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

“What disturbs you is not the book’s alleged advocacy of violence as such, but how it explicates the primary source from which the vast majority of prison-based violence flows: the state.”

[Public Books @PublicBooks]

New at PB, @orisanmi responds to prison officials who have censored his book “Tip of the Spear” (@ucpress).

​​Restrictions like these, he writes, are why prisons have been deemed the most restrictive reading environments in the United States. https://t.co/Ku7YYMvi8f

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

New @thedigradio: my conversation w @KeeangaYamahtta on how the disastrous Biden administration and failed Harris campaign fueled an ongoing multi-racial working class dealignment from the Democratic Party toward alienation or an ascendent MAGA far right https://t.co/blc1SSPlTZ

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

Most moving album I’ve ever heard and it’s not particularly close.

[BOMB Magazine @BOMBmagazine]

“['Blues Blood'] brushes lightly against the grain of history.” —Brent Hayes Edwards

For our Fall issue, the writer shares his thoughts on Immanuel Wilkins' latest album, "Blues Blood."

https://t.co/Roe4hibhFe

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

@CCA_NY @PeoplesParity @RaceNYU The work! Thank you to all involved 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Stefen Short @StefenRShort]

It took us over five years, but this week, we certified the first Olmstead prison classes in history. Proud of my colleagues for the long fight and proud of our clients for insisting—against all odds—that their freedom dreams become reality.

The work continues. Long live MG v. Cuomo 🤍 and Rest in Peace, MG, who made it all possible 🕊️