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Liz Glazer: "Now comes the hard reality of governance. How does Mamdani turn these vague inclinations into a concrete plan? What role will the police play in all of this? And perhaps most important, who in the administration is responsible for public safety?" www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation's most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday at 84. Follow live.
Already this year, 9 people have died in the troubled L.A. County jails. www.latimes.com/california/s...
two giraffes greet a newborn giraffe
ok, I think we all need a dose of adorableness today like a NEWBORN GIRAFFE www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
happy birthday @boltsmag.org and congratulations @taniel.bsky.social @michaelbarajas.bsky.social. such great content! thank you for the fabulous handiwork.
Today is a cool day: it’s our fourth birthday at Bolts!
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That’s right, @boltsmag.org launched exactly four years ago: it was just me & @michaelbarajas.bsky.social that day.
We’ve grown so much, and done so much, since! Thanks to everyone who has supported, read, & sustained us since: ❤️!
The 1803 finger emoji is impeccable work
Massachusetts is considering a bill that could shorten prison terms for domestic violence survivors whose convictions stem from their abuse.
Other states -- OK, NY, GA -- have recently enacted similar reforms. boltsmag.org/massachusett...
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather.
Check out this fascinating conversation with Yale Law Prof Judith Resnik about her book, Impermissible Punishments, which traces the history of power & punishment w/in prisons. She spoke with my @brennancenter.org colleagues @lbeisen.bsky.social & @stroud.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnlV...
Congratulations to the new head of the NYC jail system, Commissioner Stanley Richards. He was president of the Fortune Society.
The first formerly incarcerated person to ever lead the jails (!), Richards will bring a variety of talents and experiences to the role. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?
RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger
D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?
R: No
DUCKWORTH: The administration has acknowledged that the vast majority of the men it rounded up and deported to torture under this law had no criminal record
RUBIO: We didn't torture anybody. Who did we torture?
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
NEW: Chief U.S. District Judge Laura T. Swain has picked Nick Deml, former CIA officer and Vermont prison head, as the receiver for the New York City jail system. Deml's primary task will be reining in extreme violence that has long plagued the institution. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/n...
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Although city law now says Rikers Island can’t be used for incarceration past 2027, the $3.9B Manhattan jail in Chinatown won’t be built and ready for use until 2032. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/23/c...
The city’s ambitious plan to close Rikers Island is now scheduled to be finished by 2032 at the earliest. The new, smaller lockups are required by law to be completed in 2027 when the city will be legally prevented from using Rikers as a jail. tribecacitizen.com/2026/01/22/n...
Does President Trump have the right to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities? @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the legal and constitutional answer is clear.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/tru...
NEW: Virginia lawmakers adopted a constitutional amendment that would get rid of rules that strip people of voting rights for life for any felony conviction.
Now state residents must vote on the amendment to make it official. boltsmag.org/virginia-con...
Violence. Deception. Chaos.
The latest monitor’s report is clear: Rikers Island is still broken and it’s hardly getting better.
Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has a rare chance to deal with the NYC jail crisis & @brennancenter.org outlined ways to do so. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Congratulations to Illinois, which today became the 13th state to sign clean slate legislation into law. Clean slate laws allow people with criminal convictions in their past to more easily obtain housing, employment, and more by sealing some criminal records after a certain amount of time.
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"Children as young as 12 are regularly held in small barren rooms for weeks and months on end across five facilities. The lawyers claim that youth are often held in solitary conditions to alleviate “dangerously low” staffing levels, and are forced to go to the bathroom in trash cans in their cells."
Join the Data Collaborative for Justice and us on January 15th at 1pm for our webinar exploring findings from our joint report on "Rikers Island and Mental Health".
We will explore strategies capable of advancing de- carceration, data and more! #ShutRikers
RSVP:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Per a new lawsuit: New York state officials punish children *as young as 12* with solitary confinement for "minor misbehavior, including manifestations of youth's disabilities."
If adults have called solitary "worse than death," how do you think it affects kids? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/n...
Investigators found that handwritten jail logbooks masked hundreds of violent incidents. Years later, the Department of Correction says it’s finally piloting an electronic record system. A 🧵 www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/13/r...
