BREAKING! 🚨 The FCC just released proposed rules in response to the Martha Wright Reed Act of 2022 for just and reasonable rates for prison and jails calls. Due largely to an argument we’ve been making for years to exclude surveillance services, rates have been more than halved.

OCMH partnered with The New School Center for Community Alternatives El Puente & The B.R.O. Experience to adapt EASE, Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions, a new youth #mentalhealth curriculum by World Health Organization (WHO) for NYC use! This offers transformative support+care for young people with mental health concerns.

Thank you Kirsten Gillibrand & Chuck Schumer for supporting CCA’s FY25 Congressionally Directed Spending Request and workforce development opportunities for formerly incarcerated people in CNY. Access to quality jobs is paramount to public safety and in everyone’s best interest.

JULY 15 @ 6pm: Do you have a record from a prior conviction or incarceration? Are you wondering what #CleanSlateNY means for you? Join us for a Q&A to learn about the law and how it will seal old conviction records. RSVP: bit.ly/CleanSlateQues…

TONIGHT @ 6pm! Join our monthly Statewide Organizing meeting to get updates on our campaigns and build power with directly impacted leaders. RSVP: bit.ly/JoinTheFight20…

Wow- session 3 of our Summer Organizing Institute was so inspiring! We explored the political concepts and legacy of incarcerated people's civil rights movements that ground our legislative advocacy. This crew is going to hit the ground RUNNING in the 2025 legislative session!

CCA is hiring! Click here to see all of our open positions: buff.ly/3yyHB5t

A recent @sentencingproj report confirms what decades of research has shown: Safety and justice go hand in hand, and we have the tools to expand freedom and opportunity while reducing crime and violence. Learn more: sentencingproject.org/reports/incarc…

Did the NYPD force you to remove a religious head covering for a post-arrest photo? You could get $7,824 or more from settlement. Visit headcoveringcase.com/Home or call 1-833-637-4794 to learn more.

CCA's community organizers, Ismael Diaz, Jr & Thomas Gant, regularly meet with community members to share information about #CleanSlateNY & #CommunitiesNotCages. Yesterday, Ismael was a guest of the Shinnecock Nation as they welcomed their loved ones home from incarceration.

THURSDAY: Join us for our monthly Statewide Organizing Meeting to connect with directly-impacted leaders across NY, and get updates on our work to end perpetual punishment and mass incarceration. RSVP: bit.ly/JoinTheFight20…

We’re joining Center for Community Alternatives’s Communities Not Cages for a daylong planning meeting to talk through how we can ensure sentencing reform for NYS.

Decades of mass incarceration have separated families. Right now, 30K+ people are caged in state prisons. Today, #CommunitiesNotCages organizers from across NY met to plot for the 2025 legislative session. NOW is the time to end racist & unjust sentencing & bring our people home.

It's a full house for our 2024 State Courts Organizing Convening with People's Parity Project & RaceNYU! Advocates, organizers, lawyers & judges from 17 states are here to strategize together as we build people-first state courts, get better judges on the bench & shift judicial culture.

TONIGHT AT 6PM! Join us for our Statewide Organizing Meeting to connect with directly impacted leaders across the state and get updated on our campaigns to bring our loved ones home from prison and end perpetual punishment. RSVP: bit.ly/JoinTheFight20…

AUGUST 19: Join Urban Jobs Task Force at CCA's Freedom Commons for a discussion about the changing economic landscape in Syracuse. Register here: buff.ly/4djuDd7

We’re outside!! Catch us repping #CommunitiesNotCages & #CleanSlateNY at the #ChildishGambino show at the Barclays by Section 19 tonight & tomorrow. Learn more about how you can join the fight to end perpetual punishment, support transformation and bring our loved ones home.