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.
VCU immediately put the school into lockdown for a protest THEY made violent ? Students are being tear-gassed right now at #vcu after 26 cop cars surrounded the peaceful protest. This protest has been carried on all day with no harm to any students so why is it a problem now?
The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now: https://t.co/PzuwWnatO7
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11 years since my first audition! I had no idea on that day just how much would have changed between then and now. Thank you to everyone who's been there for me along the way! We're only just getting started!