#EarlyVoting is underway! 📣 Sign up here to get out the vote for The Jewish Vote’s slate of progressive champions like Gustavo Rivera for the Bronx Robert Jackson @JamaalBowmanNY Brittany Ramos Yuh-Line Niou David Alexis 🌹 Kristen Gonzalez and more: jewishvote.org/gotv 🗳

#JewsForRobert know State Senator Robert Jackson, Robert Jackson goes way back with us: from the fight to fund public education & NY Caring Majority 🍎 to winning Dem control of Albany. Here’s our open letter to NY State Senate District 31 voters. #VoteNYC jewishvote.org/jewsforrobert

NEW: Data co-published by The Nation and Solitary Watch exposes the lies spread by the New York State correction officers' union, NYSCOPBA, in a feeble attempt to preserve their Jim Crow system of racist brutality and torture.🧵 solitarywatch.org/2022/08/16/the… by VictoriaLaw

The '94 Crime Bill decimated Black and brown communities and exploded prison populations. On September 13, join us for a rally and press conference protesting the anniversary of its passage and demanding #CommunitiesNotCages. RSVP: bit.ly/CNC-Sept13

WOW. Disgraced politician Andrew Stein, convicted of tax fraud, just endorsed Lee Zeldin claiming that Dems are soft on crime. Black, brown and poor people should rot in jail, but white men? Endless second chances. The chutzpah here is remarkable. nytimes.com/2011/03/16/nyr…

Wanted to share this Public Safety Resources poster Zohran Kwame Mamdani and my offices collaborated on. We’re distributing them to local businesses, so our neighborhood is equipped with better ways of solving problems than simply summoning police every time a challenge arises.

NEW: Center for Community Alternatives's Katie Schaffer pushed back on Hochul’s notion that any changes should be made to the 2019 bail laws. She urged Hochul to instead champion criminal justice reforms like #CleanSlateNY. amny.com/news/hochul-bi…

“LaSalle voted to allow discrimination based on skin color in jury selection, shield corporations from liability when they harm NYers + undermine victims of domestic violence when they seek justice. We deserve better.” - Center for Community Alternatives's Katie Schaffer cnycentral.com/news/local/gro…

“Removing the least restrictive standard will put more people in jail without contributing to our collective public safety.” - Center for Community Alternatives's Katie Schaffer amny.com/news/hochul-do…

"If people can’t obtain good jobs or housing, that impacts not just them, but their children, the elders they care for, and their broader community," says CCA's Katie Schaffer on why we need #CleanSlateNY. WATCH the full segment here: spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-re…

🕯 Early this morning, NYC jails killed Marvin Pines, as the death rate at Rikers surges. Amaraliz Torres, whose own brother Erick died at Rikers last year, responds: My family is outraged. We need to care for human life. Reject Governor Kathy Hochul's bail plan. Close Rikers now.

NEW: “Because of bail reform, people were able to stay in the community, keep their jobs, take care of their families and have an opportunity to get their lives together. We can destroy people by putting them in jail. This is an equity issue.” cbs6albany.com/news/local/as-…

HAPPENING NOW: We are outside the Public Protection Budget Hearing calling for community investments that will create real community safety, not the Governor Kathy Hochul's unjust and legally unworkable proposal to gut New York's bail reform law.

Good Q from Kenny Burgos at this budget hearing: People with of non-criminal violations, misdemeanors, or felonies* face mandatory surcharges. Do courts spend more money collecting (or jailing people for failure to pay) than they receive? NY's top admin judge: We're not sure.

New Yorkers are routinely forced to make an impossible choice: whether to buy food ... or pay NY's court fees. Next Thursday, join the #NoPriceOnJustice campaign for a rally & press conference calling for passage of the End Predatory Court Fees Act. RSVP: bit.ly/NPJFeb22

PRESS STATEMENT: The Court New York Deserves Coalition Commends the Senate for Again Rejecting the Nomination of Justice LaSalle for Chief Judge

EVERY ONE of the new Assembly Members is a supporter of #CleanSlateNY. Bring it to the floor, @CarlHeastie! spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny…

Thank you Assembly Members George Alvarez MaryJane Shimsky Alex Bores Tony Simone NYS Assembly Member John Zaccaro Jr AMDanaLevenberg.bsky.social Sarahana Shrestha Steven Raga Juan Ardila for supporting Clean Slate. It's time to create access to jobs, housing, and education. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny…

With two weeks left in the legislative session, now is the time to pass #CleanSlateNY and end perpetual punishment for 2.3 million New Yorkers. @CarlHeastie Sen. Stewart-Cousins Here is a 🧵 of the unprecedented support for Clean Slate: