Mary Buser

Author, Lockdown on #Rikers & Never to Surrender! Former Ass't Chief-Rikers MH Dept. Co-Director-Social Workers & Allies against Solitary Confinement

[Mary Buser @BuserMary]

So proud to have collaborated on a book with this man. What a story! I hope you will read it. Amazon / B&N

[Mary Buser @BuserMary]

You got that right!

[AG Weyde @justice4jb]

@WhiteHouse Unless you are Trump or a Trump crony.

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"The idea that *real* recovery requires 'living a drug free life,' as SAMHSA's Dear Colleague letter puts it, is still pervasive," writes Helen Redmond.

"Coercing patients to quit medications for opioid use disorder is not evidence-based."

https://t.co/HLfTuN3dIL

[reuvenblau.bsky.social @ReuvenBlau]

New: Rajpattie Ramkellawan was found dead on Rikers Island this morning. She underwent a psychiatric evaluation on Friday while held on burglary charges. She’s the third person to die on Rikers this year so far — and the first without DOC press notifying reporters.

[Mary Buser @BuserMary]

I also read it & highly recommend! About time this humiliating system is abolished.

[Brian Hackel @Brian_A_Hackel]

In a few weeks I’m starting as a counselor at a methadone clinic.

I read this in 1 sitting & am VERY glad I did.

I highly recommend this for learning how & why this one medication has its own set of rules, and how these clinics function as a carceral arm of fed & state gov’ts.

[Mary Buser @BuserMary]

Shocking

[Jamie Uhrig @himmoderator]

"Corrections captain, 10 officers accused of submitting phony timesheets and stealing nearly $230K in pay" in NYC jails on Rikers while they were employed by @CorrectionNYC

https://t.co/yImAIHtqVE

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Bernie Sanders: “We cannot continue to fund the extremist government of Netanyahu who has been waging a genocidal war in Gaza, who started the war in Iran, was violating all kinds of international law in the West Bank killing Palestinians. Is this really what we should continue spending billions of dollars on when we have so many problems at home?”

[@jchausow @jchausow]

"God does not bless any conflict."

[Jamie Uhrig @himmoderator]

I can watch this over and over ...

@NYCMayor opens the first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit OTHU in the city.

People who are incarcerated and ill in NYC jails on Rikers now have a @BellevueHosp unit to provide health care for them.

Byeee, NIC.

https://t.co/eQPKOcL7dM

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"Suicide observation here might cost well over $7,000 per day if officers still did the job, but under $320 per day to have prisoners do it."

By @cellsecrets:
https://t.co/V3OhkWJsIz

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I’m saddened to learn that a New Yorker in city custody died early this morning. He was transferred from Rikers Island to Elmhurst Hospital yesterday evening, where he was receiving medical attention.

My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they endure this profound loss. Every person in our city’s care deserves dignity, safety, and access to quality medical treatment—without exception.

Transparency is essential and the Department of Correction and oversight partners have begun an investigation into the circumstances of his death.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

Q: Why do hospitals serve some of the most toxic, ultra-processed junk food imaginable?

A: Because the system isn't built to cure illness. It's built to manage it... FOREVER.

Who's ready to demand hospitals stop feeding disease & start feeding health?

MAHA

[Social Workers & Allies Against Solitary @swascorg]

Join us this Wednesday for a webinar on Solitary Confinement & Race!

Researchers Dr. Earl Smith and Dr. Angela Hattery, alongside solitary survivor Marvin Wade, will illuminate this grave issue facing thousands of Americans.

Can't wait to see you there!

[Mary Buser @BuserMary]

@NYCMayor Right on! What a contrast to Mayor Giuliani’s visit to Rikers when I was working in the Rikers MH Dept — he brought nothing but hatred & contempt.

[Mary Buser @BuserMary]

Bringing goodness & light to the sick, disdained & forgotten.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Earlier this week, I broke fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody, Department of Correction staff, Commissioner Stanley Richards, and Councilmember Yusef Salaam.

It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time. People sharing what little they have: breaking bread, offering prayer, making space for one another’s dignity even in the hardest place.

In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity.

May we extend that mercy as far as we can. Eid Mubarak to all.

[Mary Buser @BuserMary]

Right on! There is no justification for these stigmatizing, dehumanizing methadone clinics. Give people a prescription & let them go to the pharmacy like everyone else!

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

@CCA_NY Jerome Wright shares a picture of Theresa Grady’s husband, who was recently killed. They told her he died of a heart attack and yet he looked like this. With Theresa distraught in the background, Jerome says we must break this system.

[Secrets from a Prison Cell @cellsecrets]

Tennessee prison and inmates want body cams. But the commissioner does not. Read Tony's latest revealing
https://t.co/vsaji0xmYQ

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

@CCA_NY @RAPPcampaign .@SenatorMyrie says when we said people are being brutalized & murdered behind bars, they didn’t believe us, until there was video and NYT reporting. We’re asking you today to believe us the 1st time. Let’s get all these bills passed this legislative session. We can wait no more.

[Ken D Berry MD @KenDBerryMD]

Forcing yourself to drink a gallon of water daily is dumb.

[Ken D Berry MD @KenDBerryMD]

Humans evolved under dietary conditions very different from those created by modern agriculture and industrial food, and many modern diseases may arise from this mismatch.
Much of the modern medicine & nutrition advice is based on a complete lack of understanding of this basic truth...