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Good morning. Meet Anthony Swain. 43. Paraplegic. Caged pretrial for 4 years. Now has COVID. At 1:00pm today, his attorneys meet w/ prosecutors to potentially lower his unaffordable bail. Delivering
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UPDATE: Anthony Swain. COVID positive. Paraplegic. Caged pretrial for 4 years. Today granted emergency hearing. Advocates & family were hopeful. Judge declined to release. Lawyers for the jail claimed he
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Manafort released. But Yusef still locked up. He's served 25 years. Been in since he was 16. He's 41 now. Should have been resentenced 5 years ago. Lost 4 friends
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This is Yusef. 16 (left) when condemned to life w/o parole. 41 now (right w/ his dad). The Supreme Court ruled his sentence unconstitutional. He's been waiting in Michigan prison
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A public defender got a judge-ordered tour of a massive pre-trial federal jail in the heart of NYC: “Begging for medical care. Hearing others beg for care. Either no one
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Just 16. This man was 16 the last time he was free. Condemned to die in prison. In January, after decades advocating for himself, he was resentenced. Set for release
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Today in @NYGovCuomo being cold & heartless. In 43 seconds:First: Lies that NY jails/prisons can quarantine. Experts including Chief Rikers doctor unanimously say they cant given numbers jailed.Second: Says no
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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
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Last week, a group of Black people were approached by cops w/o masks. Pepper sprayed. Arrested. Caged in a cell for nearly 2 days. Packed next to dozens of other
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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
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MIAMI NOW: "I am Anthony Swain. I am 43. I am a parapalegic. Confined to a wheelchair. Trying my best to take care of myself in this pandemic, no different
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Good morning. At about 3am this morning, NY Democrats passed the harshest & most racist bail bill in New York history. At this time. Of all times. Gutted. The law
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