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The Cook County Board of Commissioners is preparing to vote tomorrow on a budget that restores the funds that were cut from the Sheriff’s budget last year. Tell them you are against this proposal by clicking the link below! #DefundCCJ #Budget4BlackLives
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He also implied that calls to #DefundCCJ are not well thought out. Members of our community and of the Budget for Black Lives Coalition have had decades to confirm that funding policing and incarceration does not keep us safe. Jail is the response that is not well thought out.
This meme should be introduced into the Cook County Budget hearing where the Sheriff is currently being praised as the largest provider of mental health services in the country. #DefundCCJ https://t.co/N2qNhv4HFy
This is your weekly reminder that sheriffs aren't service providers and jails aren't mental health centers.
"We know that both the violence of police and prisons that targets Black, Brown and indigenous people and anti-Asian violence are all part of the same white supremacist system." Cori Lin, Nikkei Uprising | #DefundCCJ #FreeThemAll
"This jail may sit in Chicago but it is truly the business of every Cook County resident to truly fund the thing our communities need". - Cate Readling, @peopleslobbyusa | #DefundCCJ #FreeThemAll
Today, Chicago abolitionists decorated the boulevard in front of CCJ w/ 5400+ Origami Cranes, one for every person trapped inside this covid hotspot. 8 prisoners have died this year due to the jails’ willful negligence. #freethemall #defundccj
Friends out in front of Div 10 @ Cook County Jail are saying there are signs in the windows saying ppl are sick & they’re on lock down bc there’s no COs.
#FreeThemAll
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"$25 million is not enough. $157 million is not enough. But we are moving in the right direction." - Tanya Watkins of @SOULInChicago.
Help us #DefundCCJ by emailing your commissioner today: https://t.co/K7sAOS9muG
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After listening to Sheriff Dart coopt social justice language to spin Cook County Jail as a place that "helps detainees with mental health issues" at today's Budget Hearing for @CHIdocumenters, I gotta say as loud as I friggin can: #DefundCCJ #FreeThemAll
Currently, Cook County is spending next to nothing on housing for low-income families, people returning from jail/prison, and the medically vulnerable. The #Budget4BlackLives would divest $60M from the Sheriff’s budget and invest it in affordable housing.
Even if the Cook County Sheriff, or any other Law Enforcement Agency's "community programs" aren't duplicated anywhere, that doesn't mean that police are the best people to provide these services. All the money that funds them should go to civilian community groups. #DefundCCJ.
Why would we want Sheriff's Deputies running our children's after school programs? Why aren't these community-run programs? #DefundCCJ.
The Chicago Jail Outbreak led to 1 in 6 COVID cases in Chicago by April 19. The article Dart has disrespectfully claimed was by "nitwits"/ "college students" - by Harvard Scientists, published in Health Affairs, and cited almost 900 times. https://t.co/2AT2yz1drY #DefundCCJ
The progress Cook County Jail made on reducing COVID numbers only happened after 7 people had died, hundreds were sick, and a federal judge ORDERED Sheriff Dart's office to take progressive measures. https://t.co/QnLfQtbXCr #DefundCCJ
From 2013, back when the daily population averaged 10,000 people. I really appreciate Maria Gaspar's work around Cook County Jail. In the last 7 years the daily avg population has dropped 50%!
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We need to #DefundCCJ & #Budget4BlackLives
Systems of policing and incarceration harm Black, Brown and poor communities -- but investing in PEOPLE, not punishment, makes EVERYONE safer.
It's to #DefundCCJ. Send your Cook County Commissioner a letter about the #Budget4BlackLives TODAY at https://t.co/HFcF1RefhX
Since 2013, incarceration in Cook County Jail has dropped by over 50%, but the Sheriff’s budget is at least 28% higher! The @CookCountyBoard needs to #DefundCCJ and pass a #Budget4BlackLives today.
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We need to see investments in our communities. NOT JAILS! NOT POLICE! NOT PRISONS! #Budget4BlackLives #DefundCCJ
We need money for communities, not cages! The #Budget4BlackLives puts Cook County's most marginalized residents first. Another Cook County is possible. https://t.co/zczpRIyRzG
Cook Co Jail needs to be DEFUNDED, Sheriff Dart needs to be accountable & our $ needs to be spent on what sustains life in our communities--and by *our* I mean poor & working Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities in Cook County.
#Budget4BlackLives #DefundCCJ #DefundThePolice
Cassandra Greer-Lee made 132 calls to request help to protect her husband Nick from COVID-19 in the Cook County Jail. No one answered or responded. He died. Now she is fighting to ensure no one else suffers the same fate.
Learn more: https://t.co/7Sr6S2bRmQ
Cassandra Greer-Lee fought for her husband's care after he exhibited COVID-19 symptoms. "She called everyone she could think of: the jail, the medical unit, the hospital, and Sheriff Tom Dart...despite her best efforts, [Nick] Lee died alone." Pass #Budget4BlackLives+#DefundCCJ!
Cassandra Greer-Lee called everyone she could think of: the jail, the medical unit, the hospital, and Sheriff Tom Dart, making what she said was a total of 132 calls. Despite her best efforts, Nickolas Lee died alone in a room at Stroger Hospital. https://t.co/MosMJb0QN0
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