Guest op-eds, City Limits bloggers and reaction from readers
‘COVID-19 creates the basis for a new standard of parole release that evaluates people for who they are today. This would prevent more death and suffering from this virus and the crisis of mass incarceration.’
When the hospitals in NYC were overrun, the death toll was out of control, folks had lost their jobs, patients had to split ventilators due to a shortage, and he’d gone out and bought a gun, my partner gave me a sage ultimatum: Either come home now, or stay in Sante Fe ’til this is over.
The mayor’s proposed cuts are ‘devastating and a further disadvantage for schools that were struggling before a pandemic. Combined with the concentrated impact of the virus on low-income families, it’s crippling.’
‘To make sure that this period of physical distancing becomes an opportunity for social solidarity, teachers and other unionists should speak out against anti-Asian racism with their students and co-workers. ‘
‘Arnie candidly wrote that he was convicted of a double homicide in Brooklyn. ‘I make no bones about it, I was a bad guy.’ He’ll first be eligible for parole when, should he live that long, he’d be 81.’
‘If done thoughtfully, New York has an opportunity to set a new standard for states to address longstanding injustice and inequity, build African-American wealth, and create jobs for those who have been marginalized.’
‘Please urge your elected officials to pass legislation granting public workers who give their lives in dealing with this crisis ‘Line-of-Duty’ death benefits.’
‘Under the new amendments to the law, Kalief Browder would have been eligible for bail, the prosecutor would have again asked for bail, and bail would have been set. Under the law that just passed, Kalief’s story ends no differently.’
‘For the sake of advancing political agendas, ‘no rent’ sounds much better than rental relief or rental subsidies. However, at some point, simple logic must prevail.’
‘This stimulus bills turns Julia and her U.S. citizen children, and other Americans, into second-class citizens for marrying undocumented immigrants.’
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