Author, Lockdown on #Rikers & Never to Surrender! Former Ass't Chief-Rikers MH Dept. Co-Director-Social Workers & Allies against Solitary Confinement
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6 Jul 2024
So proud to have collaborated on a book with this man. What a story! I hope you will read it. Amazon / B&N
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Jun 14
TRANSPARENT STING is a full-length comedy about a scientist’s quest for truth and how it turned him into a fugitive and brought his estranged family together. This play explores odd drug inventions, US healthcare, addiction, and the meaning of life. On this day in 2005 my play...
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Jun 9
Gina from Jersey is livin’ on a prayer.
But she’s also buying assets, holding on, and learning one of the most powerful wealth strategies most regular investors never hear about.
This week’s newsletter breaks down “Buy, Borrow, Die” for the rest of us.
Read it here (link in comments):
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Jun 8
RT @KerryKennedyRFK: When police raided our press conference, Ruth Lopez didn’t hesitate. She told them they didn’t have a warrant. She tol…
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Quarter million downloads in 2 weeks!
Thats crazy numbers!
Lets Gooo!!!
@glennEmartin #podcast
#truecrime
#mentalhealth
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Jun 3
You got that right!
Jun 3
Unless you are Trump or a Trump crony.
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"The idea that *real* recovery requires 'living a drug free life,' as SAMHSA's Dear Colleague letter puts it, is still pervasive," writes Helen Redmond.
"Coercing patients to quit medications for opioid use disorder is not evidence-based."
filtermag.org/samhsa-long-te…
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New: Rajpattie Ramkellawan was found dead on Rikers Island this morning. She underwent a psychiatric evaluation on Friday while held on burglary charges. She’s the third person to die on Rikers this year so far — and the first without DOC press notifying reporters.
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May 10
I also read it & highly recommend! About time this humiliating system is abolished.
May 10
In a few weeks I’m starting as a counselor at a methadone clinic.
I read this in 1 sitting & am VERY glad I did.
I highly recommend this for learning how & why this one medication has its own set of rules, and how these clinics function as a carceral arm of fed & state gov’ts.
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Apr 16
Shocking
Apr 16
"Corrections captain, 10 officers accused of submitting phony timesheets and stealing nearly $230K in pay" in NYC jails on Rikers while they were employed by @CorrectionNYC
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Apr 15
Bernie Sanders: “We cannot continue to fund the extremist government of Netanyahu who has been waging a genocidal war in Gaza, who started the war in Iran, was violating all kinds of international law in the West Bank killing Palestinians. Is this really what we should continue spending billions of dollars on when we have so many problems at home?”
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"God does not bless any conflict."
Apr 10
God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.
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Apr 7
I can watch this over and over ...
@NYCMayor opens the first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit OTHU in the city.
People who are incarcerated and ill in NYC jails on Rikers now have a @BellevueHosp unit to provide health care for them.
Byeee, NIC.
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"Suicide observation here might cost well over $7,000 per day if officers still did the job, but under $320 per day to have prisoners do it."
By @cellsecrets:
filtermag.org/prison-suicide…
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I’m saddened to learn that a New Yorker in city custody died early this morning. He was transferred from Rikers Island to Elmhurst Hospital yesterday evening, where he was receiving medical attention.
My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they endure this profound loss. Every person in our city’s care deserves dignity, safety, and access to quality medical treatment—without exception.
Transparency is essential and the Department of Correction and oversight partners have begun an investigation into the circumstances of his death.
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Q: Why do hospitals serve some of the most toxic, ultra-processed junk food imaginable?
A: Because the system isn't built to cure illness. It's built to manage it... FOREVER.
Who's ready to demand hospitals stop feeding disease & start feeding health?
MAHA
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Join us this Wednesday for a webinar on Solitary Confinement & Race!
Researchers Dr. Earl Smith and Dr. Angela Hattery, alongside solitary survivor Marvin Wade, will illuminate this grave issue facing thousands of Americans.
Can't wait to see you there!
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Mar 21
Bringing goodness & light to the sick, disdained & forgotten.
Earlier this week, I broke fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody, Department of Correction staff, Commissioner Stanley Richards, and Councilmember Yusef Salaam.
It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time. People sharing what little they have: breaking bread, offering prayer, making space for one another’s dignity even in the hardest place.
In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity.
May we extend that mercy as far as we can. Eid Mubarak to all.
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Mar 19
Right on! There is no justification for these stigmatizing, dehumanizing methadone clinics. Give people a prescription & let them go to the pharmacy like everyone else!
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Jerome Wright shares a picture of Theresa Grady’s husband, who was recently killed. They told her he died of a heart attack and yet he looked like this. With Theresa distraught in the background, Jerome says we must break this system.
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Tennessee prison and inmates want body cams. But the commissioner does not. Read Tony's latest revealing
filtermag.org/tennessee-pris…
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