The NYCLU is sponsoring a set of conversation cards and the associated listening.nyc website, aimed to encourage people to talk about policing and the criminal justice system. Check it out!
Unnecessary jail expansion
Does our county really need a bigger jail?
A guide for avoiding unnecessary jail expansion
As jail populations have skyrocketed over the past three decades, jails around the country have become dangerously overcrowded. The reflexive response is often to start the long, expensive process of building a larger jail. However, this report provides a roadmap to easier, quicker, cheaper, and more just solutions to jail overcrowding. It is organized around a series of questions that local decisionmakers should be asking and then lays out a detailed briefing on best practices for reducing jail overcrowding.
Students of color disciplined more often?
- Mon, Jun 18th ENJAN (End the New Jim Crow Action Network) members along with other local activists are meeting at the A J Williams-Meyers African Roots Center in Kingston at 1:30 pm to discuss the SUNY New Paltz Benjamin Center study on “disproportionate disciplinary rates of students of color in Hudson Valley public schools.”
How else did you expect me to show up?
From Congresswoman Omar's amazing, eloquent, and powerful speech this week in front of the Capitol:
"So, a sister of mine on TV said the thing that upsets—the thing that upsets the occupant of the White House, his goons in the Republican Party, many of our colleagues in the Democratic Party, is that—is that they can’t stand—they cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she’s equal to them. But I say to them, “How else did you expect me to show up?”
Lorett Ross at Vassar College
Sponsored by Vassar Voices for Planned Parenthood, the Women's Center, the ALANA Center, the STS Department, the Office of Community Engaged Learning, and Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley.
To RSVP, go here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScinqZN3F-JTllNVZCheYQ_XXYVjOAwngj3VobX0Vnmr2nZYg/viewform
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