Promises won't close Rikers Island. Action will.
Today, we're announcing the opening of a 104-bed unit at Bellevue Hospital - New York City's first-ever Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit - serving people in custody with complex medical needs, including critically vulnerable detainees from Rikers Island.
This marks a major step toward a correctional system built on access and prevention. The journey to close Rikers has begun.
@jtalexander The most conservative estimate is that 1 percent of people in prison are innocent. I’m sorry that the standard to throw someone in a box for several years requires such a high burden, but your job as a prosecutor is not to get convictions, it is to seek justice.
@Mark_J_Boyle I’m of the opinion that formal qualifications don’t matter as much practically for this kind of job unless it is actually previous experience in state or municipal lawmaking. Most new representatives are learning on the job.
I guess the United States military is just going to keep attacking Venezuela until Venezuela defends itself, and when that happens the United States government will say the United States was attacked by Venezuela and therefore must go to war against Venezuela.
@iamaethelwulf@alittleleader There is a reason family members of victims do not get to decide upon guilt or punishment. They have every right to be angry or want that person dead but ultimately that emotional connection makes it impossible for them to be neutral decision makers.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb calls reforms to UN in his speech:
"No single country should have a veto in UN.
A Security Council member should also lose its voting rights for a fixed period if it violates the UN Charter."
💯🎯 Our president couldn't be more right!
@xanaxchewables @CosmonautMarcus I think they were implying Middle East for sure. I’m not as sure it was a specific allegory. I would love to be wrong.
Fascism is a cult that needs victims. It gives adherents permission to indulge in the psychic reward of hurting the socially subordinate, but it needs someone to play the role of socially subordinate. So it feasts on one group after another: immigrants, trans people, Muslims.