🚨RIGHT NOW: NY is on the precipice of historic & sweeping restrictions on solitary confinement. A giant leap toward protecting the human rights of incarcerated people.
The bill is Cuomo’s desk. For days now. Passed by a supermajority. Could sign it at anytime. The time is now.
The bill is Cuomo’s desk. For days now. Passed by a supermajority. Could sign it at anytime. The time is now.
Last week, the NY Senate passed the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act on the heels of the Assembly passing it. The bill passed with supermajority support (i.e., two-thirds vote) in both houses. Enough to override a veto, if it comes to that.
HALT would end the torture of long-term solitary confinement in state prisons & local jails, & eliminate it altogether for special populations (young people, elderly people, pregnant & post-partum women, & people w/ mental illness or physical disabilities).
Right now, there are currently no limits on the total time a person can be in solitary, and every year tens of thousands of people are sent to solitary for weeks, months, years, or even decades. They are disproportionately Black and Latinx people. norwoodnews.org/op-ed-solitary…
This is a historic opportunity. And this is a remarkable place to be. And NY got here because of a tireless grassroots campaign led by survivors of solitary confinement and impacted family members could not and would not quit. Jerome Wright, Victor Pate & Anisah Sabur among them.
Andrew Cuomo. You can actually do something positive. To help people. Please sign the bill & #HALTsolitary now!
Join: You can use this Phone 2 Action Tool to call, email, and tweet at the Governor to urge him to sign the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: bit.ly/HALT-phone-act….
Join: You can use this Phone 2 Action Tool to call, email, and tweet at the Governor to urge him to sign the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: bit.ly/HALT-phone-act….
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