‘My family—and families like mine all over this city—deserve to be able to call for help and actually get it.’
While about 20 percent of New York’s population have been tested for the coronavirus, just about 3.6 percent of people incarcerated in the state’s prisons have received tests.
‘Now is the time for the state legislature to pass HALT and for the governor to sign it into law. The mayor, City Council, and Board of Correction must go further and abolish solitary confinement.’
‘I believe in Michael Blake for Congress because he believes in The Bronx.’
‘We’re urging the City Council to maintain funding for public defenders and help ensure that low-income New Yorkers have the support and services they need, and have access to justice that others take for granted.’
City Limits ha contactado a los cinco candidatos que cuentan con experiencia en cargos públicos y carrera política para presentar a nuestros lectores perfiles de cada uno de ellos.
‘Men take the jail phone one by one to ask me questions. They beg me to contact their families so I can tell their families that they love them in case they die.’
‘We’ll never learn the names of people found dead in the subway or in their Rikers cell, preventable casualties of public austerity and incalculable racism.’
‘It is reasonable to assume that the majority of people pushed to the brink by New York State on Pause are those who can least afford a $1,000 fine or a stay in jail, but they are likely to be the ones targeted most by police.’
‘Mayor de Blasio’s new budget, which prioritizes our city’s paramilitary police and corrections department over much-needed public services, indicates the city believes otherwise.’