The “Just Home” proposal to house seriously ill people leaving jail cleared one of its final procedural hurdles at a heated public hearing, where locals repeatedly testified that they feared for their safety.
December 14, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/12/14/plan-to-house-formerly-incarcerated-inches-forward-in-the-east-bronx/Political calculus around a City Council race in the East Bronx has slowed the approval process for a plan to house seriously ill people leaving jail, and could cue up a test: whether the Council is willing to override opposition from one of their own.
November 13, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/11/13/how-a-bronx-election-swerved-the-course-for-plan-to-house-formerly-incarcerated/“The district attorney decides who to charge with crimes, what crimes to charge, what length of sentence to seek, and what, if any, alternatives to incarceration they will offer. Despite their influence and the ever-expanding role ‘public safety’ occupies in the public discourse, these incumbents rarely face a serious challenger on Election Day.”
November 7, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/11/07/opinion-new-yorkers-lose-when-district-attorneys-go-unchallenged/A 2019 plan to expand the Justice Involved Supportive Housing program would satisfy a commitment in former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Points of Agreement to close the city’s notorious jail on Rikers Island. The existing operators aren’t biting.
October 31, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/10/31/nyc-promised-more-apartments-to-break-a-vicious-cycle-where-are-they/We cannot continue to uphold zoning for “character” to such an extent that we leave communities stunted for growth AND community members on the streets and in unstable situations.
August 16, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/08/16/opinion-towards-a-city-island-of-yes/“It’s an issue that seems to be within DOC’s control, something they can anticipate, and yet they’re really not able to make sure that the conditions are humane for the people that are forced to be there,” one civil rights attorney said.
July 28, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/07/28/sweltering-summer-weather-stirs-familiar-concerns-over-heat-in-nyc-jails/“Despite the mayor’s repeated statements that he wants to fund more ‘upstream’ services that address the city’s mental health crisis, his agenda, instead, focuses on post-crisis points and increased law enforcement. To effectively address the City’s mental health crisis, the mayor must invest in more preventive and evidenced-based supports.”
June 29, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/06/29/opinion-will-nycs-budget-promote-mental-health-or-preserve-mass-incarceration/Reactions to the news were subdued in City Hall Park Thursday, where the organization VOCAL-NY had gathered to mourn not only Neely, who had been unhoused, but the at least 815 other unhoused New Yorkers who, according to city data, died in the year ending last July.
May 11, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/05/11/mourners-react-to-manslaughter-charge-in-jordan-neelys-death/“Out there you are vulnerable. It’s safer in here behind doors,” Kevin, who declined to provide his last name, told City Limits outside the 30th Street Intake Shelter Thursday. He is among several currently or formerly homeless New Yorkers to empathize this week with the late Jordan Neely.
May 5, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/05/05/justice-4-jordan-new-yorkers-whove-experienced-homelessness-react-to-subway-killing/“The harsh reality is that, despite the possibility that a rich and powerful man may now be in for his just deserts, our criminal legal system is daily marked by widespread unfairness and a stark racial bias.”
April 24, 2023 http://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2023/04/24/opinion-trumps-indictment-doesnt-redeem-our-flawed-criminal-legal-system/
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