- live tweeting from the Board of Corrections meeting - theyre voting on whether to implement the new Enhanced Security Housing (ESH) @ Rikers
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555002835637903361
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:06:02 - Some of the signs in the crowd: https://twitter.com/JailsAction/status/555003695008874497 …
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555004888766484480
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:14:11 - Meeting has started. Discussing changes to the ESH proposal since the last public hearing.
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555005678063206400
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:17:19 - Important to note @ last public hearing the overwhelming majority of advocates, activists, lawyers & experts who spoke were against ESH unit
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555006221305274369
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:19:29 - ESH unit has min. 17hr lock in (time person remains in cell a day). punitive segregation unit (solitary) has min 20hr lock in. very similar
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555008232088145920
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:27:28 - some changes like anyone under 18 excluded from both ESH and punitive segregation units due to public hearing in December
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555009539758911489
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:32:40 - due process hearing required before someone is placed in punitive segregation unless they are deemed "too dangerous"
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555010839758241792
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:37:50 - inmate who serves 30 days will get a 7 day break before they can be placed in punitive seg. 60 day limit w/in 6 month period 1 exception...
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555011051821858816
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:38:41 - exception is if inmate is "so incredibly dangerous".
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555011332471529474
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:39:47 - Extremely-troubled private healthcare provider Corizon Health Services still given power to determine who is too mentally/physically ill for solitary.
- people with serious mental health illness (determined by clinicians) also excluded from both punitive segregation and ESH unit
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555011993342861312
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:42:25 - BOC was technically voting on 3 different things
- board will be voting on three different things today 1. house 18-21 year olds together alone -- for first time away from 16-17 year olds +
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555012427927289856
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:44:09 - 2. implementation of The Enhanced Security Housing Unit 3. changes to standards and rules to the Punitive Segregation Unit (aka solitary)
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555012626816987137
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:44:56 - ... including 3 amendments proposed by BOC Member Judge Hamill
- 3 amendments were proposed to the rule by Judge Hamill. One of them is no 18-21 year olds in punitive segregation or ESH by 2016.
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555014224653856768
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:51:17 - ...provided "sufficient funding" is available for "alternative programming" for this age group
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555014786493464576
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:53:31 - another amendment proposed is no inmate can be sentenced to punitive segregation for more than 30 days for any one infraction.
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555015114546745344
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:54:49 - "The only way we're going to decrease violence in Rikers is to realize that violence is caused by Rikers that's what Dept of Health" says
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555015732279656448
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:57:16 - "Violence on Rikers island is caused by conditions on Rikers island" -board member Bobby Cohen
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555016040795897856
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:58:30 - "ESH unit is punitive bc were keeping ppl in cells for mandatory 7 more hours a day" -Bobby Cohen
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555016531223252992
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 15:00:27 - Audience stands up holding "Solitary is Torture" sign pic.twitter.com/HX6bSk9e2y
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555017296813776896
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 15:03:29 - More evidence that NYC law enforcement brutality protests are reaching Rikers Island....
- Board member Robert (Bobby) Cohen had a two-slide powerpoint on statistics of race in Rikers Island titled "Black and Hispanic Lives Matter"
http://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/555017769000132608
— Raven Rakia (@aintacrow)Tue, Jan 13 2015 15:05:22 - Robert Cohen of Board of Corrections says violence in Rikers is CAUSED by Rikers conditions and brutality pic.twitter.com/EXGhhQDha9
http://twitter.com/shushugah/status/555016027151798274
— Another Techie Brat (@shushugah)Tue, Jan 13 2015 14:58:27
