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A key set of actors has largely escaped scrutiny for driving up the number of people waiting for their trials at Rikers and fueling the current crisis: New York City's judges.
@georgejoseph94 and I dove into the data to find out how - and who. (1/x)https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/09/27/death-at-rikers-how-nyc-judges-fueled-the-swelling-jail-population/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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I think they should nuke Deep Springshttps://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1446112016981102613 …
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@nysfocus to when@akashvmehta and@leee_harris first got the thing going. Never imagined they’d be hiring one of my favorite journalists and former colleagues within such a short period of time. Unbelievably positive news for the people of New York.https://twitter.com/rklein90/status/1445034958431604737 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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Couldn't be more excited to welcome Rebecca to our team as executive editor!https://twitter.com/rklein90/status/1445034958431604737 …
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Next Sunday on 60 Minutes,
@jon_wertheim reports on Deep Springs College, where riding and ranching are as much a part of the curriculum as philosophy and calculus. https://cbsn.ws/3a3HIby pic.twitter.com/HSMwcBZphDNext week on 60 Minutes: A college with an Old West campusThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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“Legislators including the members who helped draft the legislation believe co-ops are included,” he points out, “and we said that during the hearing.”https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/09/30/co-op-residents-excluded-erap-rent-relief/ …
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NEW: FEMA says it’s finally ending subsidies to dangerous coastal development. But new flood insurance rates will be slow-walked and the program remains insolvent, NFIP head told me on a press call. That's likely because it doesn’t price in climate risk:https://prospect.org/environment/new-flood-insurance-rates-still-subsidize-coastal-development/ …
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NEW: NY's rent relief program is shutting out co-op owners, claiming "the Legislature did not include co-ops as eligible." Legislators disagree. "Staff at OTDA seem to be ignoring the plain meaning of the law," said Senate Housing Chair
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SCOOP: NY's 100Ks of co-op owners are being blocked from obtaining emergency rent relief, even though they're usually treated as tenants in other state laws. this has left many co-ops, especially low-income ones, struggling to pay their bills. w/
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After 9/11, nearly 1,000 Muslim immigrants were wrongfully imprisoned and deported In New York, 20 years ago today, two innocent Egyptian brothers were kidnaped by the state and sent to Brooklyn’s Guantanamo Read about it in my latest for
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I'd add that the monitor has retained an independent expert to conduct a thorough staffing evaluation, but cautioned that it would take "many months."pic.twitter.com/mIpRHM62cV
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"Rikers has a dramatically higher staffing ratio than any other jail in the country—even on days when ~2,000 people are unavailable to work." "Even on the days with the most sick calls, the ratio of guards available to work to incarcerated people was at or near a 30-year peak."
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This quote from the federal monitor is key: “An abundance of Staff appear to diffuse Staff’s sense of responsibility and leads them to believe that ‘someone else will handle the problem’—creating the classic ‘bystander effect’ in which Staff do not uphold standards of conduct.”
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The crisis at Rikers has more to do with overstaffing than understaffing,
@roshantone argues, citing@laurenk_gill and@rachsherm's articles for@nysfocus. (1/x)https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/rikers-island-is-in-crisis-its-not-caused-by-understaffing.html …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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Adding an example. This just happened to an immunocompromised unhoused man accused of stealing blankets. His assessment for likelihood to return to court is near perfect. Judge didn't wanna hear anything and refused to say why he set unaffordable bail.https://twitter.com/akashvmehta/status/1443024650473287687 …
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"Paris’ social housing agencies are working to do their part to meet the city’s climate plan, which calls for 60% energy savings in residential buildings by 2030."https://grist.org/housing/paris-shows-how-to-make-public-housing-greener-and-more-habitable-at-the-same-time/ …
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@macfathom's chronicle of one case before Judge Herbert Moses (third on our list of the most prolific bail-setters in NYC) shows how arraignments actually work. https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/rikers-island-crisis-judges-bail/ …pic.twitter.com/Xeqqp2D05EThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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In New York City,
@georgejoseph94 &@akashvmehta report, setting bail usually means sending a person to jail.https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-judges-fuel-rikers-crisis …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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