Thread by @BronxDefenders

JOIN US at 11am for a press conference responding to a bombshell Board of Corrections report on jail an prison conditions that led to COVID-related deaths last year.

If you can't make it, we'll be live Tweeting in this thread.

RSVP: tinyurl.com/wfapuy

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“This report demonstrates the urgent need to both decarcerate and vaccinate” - @AFontier

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“Reading the BOC report shocked me to the core and enraged me. Each page reflected the suffering of the men who died.

We’re calling on Governor Cuomo to stop playing politics and playing with people’s lives” - @JOlderma

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“It seems when it comes to the health and safety of our incarcerated brothers and sisters, the rules don’t apply.

This cannot go on. It must stop now.” - @phara4assembly on how technical parole violation led to the death of Michael Tyson due to COVID

“We have to pass Less Is More and the whole Justice Roadmap.

We need to make it very clear to this Governor that refusing to vaccinate people is state sanctioned violence” - @ZohranKMamdani

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.@MARVINMAYFIELD7 reading from from Tim’s letter, a man who contracted COVID in prison.

“We were placed in quarantine with 30 other people then let out without testing. Social distancing is impossible. The NYS prison population must be downsized for us to socially distance”

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Black Lives Matter. Incarcerated Lives Matter. New York needs to vaccinate people in jails and prisons immediately.

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