IWOC NYCMay 6, 2020

How @NYCMayor & pols spend city money tells us who they believe deserves to suffer, starve, and die.
#money4shools
#publichealthispublicsafety
#freethmeall
#FreeThemAll4PublicHealth
#CloseRikersNow
#nonewcages #nomorecops
#freedomtothrive
#carenotcops #carenotcages
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RT @FreeThemAll2020
⚡️BUDGET ACTION THREAD⚡️

The NYC Council takes up @NYCMayor’s awful budget today. We must hold the city accountable for their misguided prioriti…
https://twitter.com/FreeThemAll2020/status/1258056568077156354

Free Them All For Public Health on Twitter

“⚡️BUDGET ACTION THREAD⚡️ The NYC Council takes up @NYCMayor’s awful budget today. We must hold the city accountable for their misguided priorities. If de Blasio gets his way, New York will spend more money on policing and jails combined than we spend on education. Despicable!”

Twitter
IWOC NYCDec 4, 2019
This is where city gov’t wants to doom our neighbors & loved ones for years while they build a superficially nicer version of a torture chamber. Shame on @NYCMayor, @NYCMayorsOffice, @NYCSpeakerCoJo, and @NYSDOCCS — #CloseRikersNow #NoNewJails
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RT @AshAgony
A teenager locked up in the notoriously brutal Rike…
https://twitter.com/AshAgony/status/1202065123789152256
Ash J on Twitter

“A teenager locked up in the notoriously brutal Rikers Island tried to hang himself but had 2nd thoughts midway & tried to save himself. Correction officers saw & stood by for 7 minutes. The teen is now in a coma with no brain activity. https://t.co/4wu8xwmPHy #ShutDownRikers”

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IWOC NYCOct 17, 2019
.@[email protected], @[email protected], and other wardens-in-honor invoked the name of Kalief Browder today; meanwhile, the latest evidence that their jail expansion plan is Rikers 2.0 comes out. #NoNewJails #CloseRikersNOW
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RT @[email protected]
N@[email protected]@[email protected] touts passage of "safer, fairer jails" plan, it has been working behind the scenes to try and…
https://twitter.com/RosaGoldensohn/status/1184946847586099200
Rosa Goldensohn on Twitter

“NEWS: While the de Blasio administration touts passage of "safer, fairer jails" plan, it has been working behind the scenes to try and kill a solitary reform package years in the making. And just booted one of its champions from the jail oversight board https://t.co/eu1KHZ2zau”

Twitter
IWOC NYCOct 8, 2019

This is the day to tell City Council: #CloseRikersNow #NoNewJails
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RT @[email protected]
💥LAST DAY FOR COMMENTS💥

Today is the LAST DAY to submit comments online about the City Council’s jail expansion plan.

Tell them: #NoNewJails
Tell them: #CloseRikersNow
Tell them: The jail building era is over.

Our guide to writing comments:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KN4SvEFGq3F3Tv018bzo0NI85QheZ0wHYbFn08Ciyzk/edit?ts=…
https://twitter.com/nonewjails_nyc/status/1181585615290273795

IWOC NYCSep 26, 2019

If someone tells you you can decarcerate a community by building jails... read the fine print.

Oh, and FIGHT BACK.
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RT @[email protected]
There is a legal document, which everyone seem to have missed.

NYC Ten Year Capital Plan bond covenant between the City of NYC and big banks + private interests states:

$10b to expand the jail capacity.

Wake Up! Rikers 2.0 #closerikersnow #nonewjails https://twitter.com/jtbrg/status…
https://twitter.com/msbritt_305/status/1177256352764370944

IWOC NYCSep 5, 2019

Margaret Chin: why can’t the rehabilitative services being planned for the new jails simply be introduced into communities now to drive down arrests and the jailed population?

MOCJ: [pathetic non-answer.]

#CloseRikersNow #NoNewJails

IWOC NYCSep 5, 2019
“80-90% of our jailed population is pre-trial.” — MOCJ at the City Council hearing. So, they’re building skyscraper jails *why*? #CloseRikersNow #NoNewJails
IWOC NYCSep 5, 2019
“A ten-year plan to shut down the Barge is unacceptable and irresponsible.” — council member Rafael Salamanca Jr at today’s City Council hearing, to applause from public and silence from MOCJ. #CloseRikersNow #NoNewJails
IWOC NYCSep 5, 2019
“That is a timeline that is still being developed.” — MOCJ, in woefully passive language, answering whether and when the Barge will be closed. #CloseRikersNow #NoNewJails
IWOC NYCSep 5, 2019
“[DOC staff] want to be sure they will have a job” if the jail pop shrinks — MOCJ, spelling out the priorities of so-called decarceration. #CloseRikersNow #NoNewJails