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#thread #STLJailsCrisis
Last night, the world once again beheld people whose basic rights have been violated, who have been caged by a system that criminalizes race & poverty, & who have been torn from their families because they could not afford a money bond/no bond was allowed.
Last night, the world once again beheld people whose basic rights have been violated, who have been caged by a system that criminalizes race & poverty, & who have been torn from their families because they could not afford a money bond/no bond was allowed.
Following protests in January and February, people last night held a banner from inside #STLCity’s “City Justice Center” that read, “HELP US,” and were heard saying they wanted court dates. While previous protests highlighted the jail’s lack of COVID safety protocols, lack of...
adequate food & access to water, abuse and retaliation by jail employees- people last night pointed to the injustice of money bail and pretrial detention.
A brief #STLJailsCrisis timeline:
November 2017: James Cody & other people detained in the Workhouse pretrial file a federal lawsuit against #STLCity alleging inhumane conditions at the Workhouse. Still pending.
April 2018: @CLOSEWorkhouse campaign starts to #closetheWorkhouse
November 2017: James Cody & other people detained in the Workhouse pretrial file a federal lawsuit against #STLCity alleging inhumane conditions at the Workhouse. Still pending.
April 2018: @CLOSEWorkhouse campaign starts to #closetheWorkhouse
September 2018 & January 2019: @CLOSEWorkhouse publishes two reports on the history of the Workhouse, problems with money bail, pretrial detention & the need for #STL to reimagine public safety. archcitydefenders.org/our-impact/clo…
January 2019: David Dixon sues #STLCity for an unlawful money bail system w/ ACD, @adv_project, @CivRightsCorps & @GeorgetownICAP in his corner.
June 2019: Federal judge in the Dixon case grants a preliminary injunction, orders people detained to get another bail hearing.
June 2019: Federal judge in the Dixon case grants a preliminary injunction, orders people detained to get another bail hearing.
Budgets are value statements, right?
Take #STLCity's FY21 projections:
Budget: $1,116,375,497
General Fund Budget: $495,061,453
(Most local taxes & fees are collected and used to support services in the GF. The City’s Earning tax = main source of revenue for GF.)
Take #STLCity's FY21 projections:
Budget: $1,116,375,497
General Fund Budget: $495,061,453
(Most local taxes & fees are collected and used to support services in the GF. The City’s Earning tax = main source of revenue for GF.)
The City sinks $183.9M or 37% of the GF budget on police.
The City invests $1.3M on “Human Services” which is 0.3% from the GF budget.
source: stlouis-mo.gov/government/dep…
The City invests $1.3M on “Human Services” which is 0.3% from the GF budget.
source: stlouis-mo.gov/government/dep…
If we were to take $100 to represent #STLCity spending from the General Fund budget, the breakdown would be:
$37.15 to police, $9.36 to the courts, $6.16 to the two jails, and $0.27 to human services.
Is that how you want your tax dollars spent?
#defundthepolice
$37.15 to police, $9.36 to the courts, $6.16 to the two jails, and $0.27 to human services.
Is that how you want your tax dollars spent?
#defundthepolice
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For years, @STLCityGov has displaced, punished, arrested, brutalized, prosecuted, jailed, and traumatized countless people who are unhoused and then had the gall to suggest it's "public safety."
Over +10 years, we've represented clients who were homeless and couldn't...
For years, @STLCityGov has displaced, punished, arrested, brutalized, prosecuted, jailed, and traumatized countless people who are unhoused and then had the gall to suggest it's "public safety."
Over +10 years, we've represented clients who were homeless and couldn't...
get into housing often because they were targeted and punished for being poor and unhoused. They'd been cussed out, beaten unconscious, arrested and threatened with being caged in the Workhouse, and generally abused by SLMPD, the courts, & the notoriously hellish Workhouse jail.
Those publicly financed & City supported actions never got our clients closer to feeling safe, respected, or that their basic needs were actually being met. People would be unhoused on the streets one day, get arrested, jailed and vanish for a few months, and then be right back
