#RIkers

Christopher Mathias

At a bus stop in Bed-Stuy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rikers-prisoners-coronavirus_n_5e7e705ec5b6256a7a2a995d

Rebecca Kavanagh

BREAKING: More than 500 people on Rikers Island have tested positive for COVID-19. Four corrections officers have died from the virus. Another 273 staff are infected.239 people currently incarcerated have

I live right near Prospect Park. It's a nice place to exercise at distance. Today, I ran into @nycmayor @billdeblasio w/ @nycfirstlady there.But they live 11 miles away *inside* another

Scott Hechinger

The first two people to die on Rikers Island were caged only bc of a “technical” parole violation. They committed no crimes.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/nyregion/rikers-coronavirus-deaths-parolees.html Raymond Rivera, the second person to die o

Scott Hechinger

The first person to die on Rikers Island was caged only bc of a “technical” parole violation. He committed no crime.https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/first-rikers-covid-death-was-jailed-on-technicality.html The first person to die on Rikers is one

public health not private wealth

got blocked by @BrooklynDA for pointing out that the letter he signed to de Blasio & Michael Tyson's death on Rikers were related thoughts on legality, zoomers who are actively

COVID Bail Out NYC

COVIDBailOutNYC

We got this! Let's get them free w/@release_fund. Out of Rikers. To safety. NOW.BAIL DONATIONS - leave note "COVID Bail Out"Venmo: @COVIDBailOutNYC PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/EmergencyReleaseCredit Card: https://secure.actblue.com/do

Community Action on Prison Expansion

DAY 7 ACTION ALERTToday we target Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice @RobertBuckland & the @MojGOVUK and demand they #freethemall4publichealth, because they have the power to save thousands

Johnny Doth Edible Hath Kickethed In

It really is funny to me that there are loads of people who get up in arms when you state the objective fact that the US has committed equally as

The pandemic is revealing and exacerbating inequalities of all kinds. A few examples: In Philadelphia, Covid-19 appeared first in wealthy, white neighborhoods, then spread quickly in poorer, diverse neighborhoods, where

Scott Hechinger

Fearmongering from the NY Posts & Julia Marshs of the world isn’t just disdainful. It’s dangerous. Enables harsher laws, blocks smarter reforms, & here, strengthens the cynical effort to kill

coffeeshopjihad

So my Poppy was a ship captain for Exxon and he has the best stories. I loved hearing them as a kid (still do). I thought a bunch of them

This is serious. Happened today in Manhattan. As a public defender for over a decade, I have tried cases where the Manhattan DA uses a "hysterical 911 call" as categorical

DARLENE JACKSON

#Thread I didn’t know how I should process what happened to me two days ago. I was sexually harassed just a few steps away from my home. And what made

1. I have been looking to see whether corrections officer/staff unions might stand up to the dangerous conditions at jails and prisons and call for what every public health expert

Pretty wild how some on the left treated Corey Johnson during city budget negotiations & in the deal's aftermath, through today when he dropped from the mayoral race. He pushed