Mayor de Blasio is reauthorizing the use of solitary confinement and suspending the minimal due process protections afforded to people on Rikers.

Instead of implementing new rules to protect incarcerated people, the City is subjecting them to deadly conditions and torture. 1/4 Under @NYCMayor's new Executive Order, @CorrectionNYC is allowed to:

-shackle anyone indefinitely without reason
-force anyone into solitary confinement without a hearing, appeal, or counsel
-reopen Enhanced Supervision Housing for young people
-enforce no out-of-cell time

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Last month, the White House and Congress unveiled the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 and the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 in an effort to reform the immigration system and create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented people.

However, these policies fall short.

1/ As PDs in the Bronx, we know that immigration & criminalization are deeply entangled.

The current draft of the USCA & the American Dream & Promise Act include broad criminalization barriers that would rely on local police & place ppl at increased harm & risk of deportation.

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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

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

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THREAD Since NY’s historic pretrial reforms were implemented on Jan 1st, 400+ clients we represent in the Bronx have been able to return to their families, jobs, education, and community while fighting their cases. Opponents are working overtime to fear monger & spread misinformation about what these reforms do.

It’s important to cut through the lies and misinformation & recognize how these reforms are already improving the lives of the people of the Bronx and across NY.