Would it surprise you to know that the Governor (@NYGovCuomo) of New York, the global epicenter of Coronavirus & home of Rikers Island w/ the highest infection rate in the world, is spending time as I type pushing forward on plans to jail *more people* on Rikers Island pretrial?
Last night, hours after these horrific numbers came out, NY Dems met behind closed doors. To discuss repealing bail reform already saving thousands from Rikers. @NYSenDems & @NYGovCuomo want to give judges more power to jail people charged w/ misdemeanors & nonviolent felonies. 
On Jan 1, 2020, NY bail reform ended pretrial jail for misdemeanors & nonviolent felonies. Kept 1000s charged w/ lowlevel offenses home w/ families, jobs, & free from Coronavirus. @NYGovCuomo & @NYSenDems want to give judges power to jail large categories of these cases again.
2 months of police, prosecutors, GOP lawmakers, Bill de Blasio, NYPD Chief, & White supremacists, partnering w/ a willing sensationalist media lying & fearmongering over a handful of cases is all it took for @NYGovCuomo & @NYSenDems to cave. Not based on reason. Just politics.
If you’re as outraged as me, please call on @NYGovCuomo & @NYSenDems to have backbone. To stand up for a modest, but positive law. To defend people & communities long devastated. To invest in public health. Not jail. To reject fear. Email and call here: JusticeNotFear.org.
