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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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Chris Howard died in a jail cell when police handcuffed & shackled him to a chair then left him as he was having a seizure.

People are dying every day in jail & prison due to gross negligence or by suicide, but their stories don't make the evening news.

fox5atlanta.com/news/i-team/gw…
In Erie County in NYS, the number of deaths due to suicide and medical neglect is staggering.

theappeal.org/24-prisoners-h…
If there is anything that should cause our government to shut down, it should be the realization that we have more than 2 million people living behind walls (yes - walls) who are literally dying and it's not a news story because the people behind the walls are somehow invisible.
And, if you follow me, you know I am gonna say here, please follow @BKBailFund.

Until we can get our government to care enough to not hold people in jail on bail, the most meaningful thing we can do is contribute even $5 to bail funds to help get people free
brooklynbailfund.org/donate/
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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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Thank you. This is wonderful.

Can you please also do something about the tens of thousands of NYCHA residents who are without heat & hot water right now in this bitterly cold weather.

You know, the people who actually fall within YOUR jurisdiction & who are YOUR responsibility?
Also please do something about the living conditions of the people detained in CITY JAILS - Rikers Island, Brooklyn Detention Center, Manhattan Detention Center and Horizons Juvenile Detention Center in the BX - who YOUR administration has MASSIVELY FAILED.
Here's what it looked like for NYCHA residents on Thursday.

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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
@DrRJKavanagh
I appreciate your response, but this was all wrong.

1. Mugshots have the opposite effect of what you say your intent was. There was a reason Willie Horton's mugshot was used in the now infamous George Bush campaign ad & it wasn't to convey that he was a "real human being."
2. There's a difference between a mugshot being available on a sheriff's website & in an article in @nytimes.

Maybe law enforcement would still have had access to them, but they have now been broadcast to a national audience of people who never would have seen them.
3. I feel like this answer is disingenuous to an extent.

You don't ordinarily use mugshots the way tabloids do. And some tabloids won't use them now, in police blotter type stories.

It feels like you came up with a very cool graphics idea & now it's a post-facto justification.
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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
@DrRJKavanagh
Yes our clients are real people with families, so maybe they don't want to be in a story about them being charged with a crime.

And if they do, maybe they would like to use different photos & have some context to their stories rather than just being represented by a mugshot.
Some tabloid newspapers have voluntarily agreed not to use mugshots in their reporting because they are problematic.

Newspapers like @nytimes would not normally use them in the same way.

The idea that they would use them in what's meant to be a "positive" story is troubling.
Newspapers don't have to publish something just because it's a matter of public record. Sometimes they don't, even when it's newsworthy.

Here it wasn't necessary - just a fancy graphics thing.
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