Pretrial detention ✅ eviscerates the presumption of innocence ✅ causes irreparable harm ✅ is not necessary to ensure return to court ✅ and doesn’t make us safer Closing youth prisons wasn’t impossible. Neither is universal pretrial freedom. #UniversalPretrialFreedom

That’s why we must start building a collaborative, multi-decade strategy for universal pretrial freedom now. Will you join the movement? #universalpretrialfreedom

RT @nyc_defenders: We are devastated to learn of the death of NYCDS and @BklynDefender client, William Johnstone, at Rikers. His death, m…

Jordan Neely, Tucker Carlson, and ‘rooting for the mob’ as America unravels

RT @nyc_defenders: If @NYCMayor can find $5.4B to arrest people he can surely find the $125M that NYC defenders desperately need to provide…

“Right now, Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing a proposal to weaken New York’s bail laws again, supposedly to clear up confusion for judges. But let’s be honest: The real reason is politics and a lack of concern for the lives of people who don’t look like her. “

RT @jessicaramos: The Treatment Not Jail truck is #SeenInAlbany! Instead of rolling back bail, let’s set up the infrastructure to get peo…

RT @JennBorchetta: We just won an order forcing the NYPD to comply with NY sealing laws & suck sealed arrest info out of its databases and…

Bail reform is not the problem and roll backs are not the answer.

“The only way to ensure there is not one more death, one more deportation, or one more violation of people’s rights inside Rikers is for Rikers to cease to exist.”

via ⁦@nytimes⁩ “There isn’t much assistance for people getting out of prison. We get $40 and a one-way bus ticket. Many of us head to the Port Authority in New York City. I say us, because I, too, am in prison.”

@K_Nicole_Hudson Maybe we should start a new group, “PDs with preemies.” I went into early labor in Bronx criminal court arraignments. Mine was born just shy of 27 weeks. He was 2.5 lbs and lived in the NICU for 2 months. I thought that was tough but wow, Keisha. What a little miracle she is.

RT @protest_nyc: Spotted on the subway: a tribute to Mary Yehudah, 31, who died in Rikers this week. (photo cred: anon)

RT @BronxDefenders: Congratulations to our Chief of Staff Wesley Caines (@bm_mansamusa) for being named one of the 2022 Galaxy Leader Fello…

Shout out to these three amazing public defender leaders quoted in this piece ⁦⁦⁦@AFontier⁩ ⁦⁦@amcweay⁩ ⁦@K_Nicole_Hudson⁩ and, of course Clara Foltz, who launched the movement for public defense over 100 years ago.