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We will be live tweeting today's NY Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call!
Follow us on this thread for updates on the issues, campaigns, and projects that groups are working on to advance statewide reform in NY!
Follow us on this thread for updates on the issues, campaigns, and projects that groups are working on to advance statewide reform in NY!
Kicking off today's call is Artie Malkin (lobbyist) with a summary of yesterday's legislative budget hearing on public protection + an overview of the budget process in NYS.
Our next speaker is Emily NaPier Singletary from @UnchainedNOW detailing actions from the week on #LessIsMoreNY including news from Monday about how the bill advanced from the NY Senate Corrections Cmte. to the NY Senate Finance Cmte.
@yonahzeitz, Katal's Policy Coordinator noting that budget testimony on #LessIsMoreNY can be accessed on the NY Senate website at https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/katal_hearing_testimony_public_protection_2.10.2021_-.pdf
@LegalAidNYC Prisoners' Rights Project Director Mary Lynne Werlwas providing an assessment of the #COVID19 vaccine rollout for incarcerated people at Rikers Island and Statewide: "Cuomo is completely wrong on this."
Cassondra Warner from @CSHInfo is giving us a comprehensive rundown of the 2020 New York Housing and Justice System Change Platform. She also shared a link to the platform, check it out at https://www.csh.org/resources/the-csh-metro-team-is-proud-to-release-the-2020-new-york-housing-and-justice-system-change-platform/
Avery Bizzell @Biz710 & @SamanthaReiser @cleanslateny on the movement to create an expungement statute in NYS, to allow for the expungement of misdemeanor + felony convictions in the state.
