Senior Counsel @LatinoJustice. Previously spox at @CCRB. Novels include The Big Fear & A Falling Knife, plays include The Rant. Personal account.
Nov 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
FRAUD EXPOSED – a two year @latinojustice investigation showed that private prison company MTC made millions during the pandemic by billing Texas prisons for work it never did. texastribune.org/2022/11/22/tex…
You must take a three month drug treatment program run by MTC before getting out on parole after a drug sentence. By law, these programs must include twenty hours a week of treatment provided by active staff. In practice, the first month is a series of quizzes on the rules.
May 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
In 2018, the NYPD named Terence Monahan—whose main credential was illegally arresting lawful protesters—to be the Chief of Department. Last night was the entirely predictable result.
Personnel is policy. Monahan’s specialty has always been arresting and detaining peaceful protesters. He oversaw the 2002 World Economic Forum response in New York – where demonstrators were kept in metal pens, essentially arrested the moment they showed up.
