Building Bridges
There’s a direct link between the penal system and community wellbeing. Here’s why, and how, I decided to teach that connection to a group of public-health students.
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There’s a direct link between the penal system and community wellbeing. Here’s why, and how, I decided to teach that connection to a group of public-health students.
Our movement was born out of our shared grief. Our voices reminded voters that the police should never police themselves.
We can't end mass incarceration without first ending solitary confinement once and for all.
Older New Yorkers are dying in state prison at an alarming rate. Once and for all, they need to come home to their families.
How public defenders in New York City organized to speak up for those who have died on Rikers — and to keep others from going there.
As demands grow louder for decarcerating and shutting down New York City’s deadly jail complex, judges and prosecutors have escaped accountability. But they’re the ones driving the crisis.
Nothing short of immediately getting people out of New York City's jail complex, and keeping others from going in, will prevent the death and horror now ravaging it.