Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants prisoners released and is already on the record as saying she wants prisons abolished.
Dozens of people, both workers& the incarcerated, have tested positive for COVID-19 on Rikers.
Many are forcibly cramped into close quarters. They do not have reliable access to soap or sanitizer. This is a humanitarian crisis.
Decarceral action must become an urgent priority. https://t.co/IDbNN3etew
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 25, 2020
She wants ICE detainees released immediately into the interior if they are at risk, and calls detention “trafficking.”
Rep. @AOC confronted this ICE agent at the airport for ‘trafficking children across the country’ during a pandemic pic.twitter.com/oP4TVnhyXq
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 24, 2020
This is her opportunity to push the progressive value of leaving no one in prison. She doesn’t want people arrested for “low-level offenses.” She also likes to pretend she’s not radical, but rather a centrist:
Thank you @AOC for uplifting critical COVID-19 initiatives impacting people in U.S. prisons & jails:
✅ #FreeOurElders w/ elderly clemencies
✅ Curtail pre-trial detention
✅ Reduce arrestsWe hope @NYGovCuomo & @NYCMayor are listening. #ClemencyNow pic.twitter.com/9uDEN0vTBK
— Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (@RAPPcampaign) March 23, 2020
That way they can go out into our communities and make us sick. Many of these people come in with diseases.
RELEASING PRISONERS
Los Angeles and now New York City are releasing prisoners by the hundreds.
New York City will immediately release 300 inmates from Rikers Island, the city’s main jail complex, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, Fox News reported.
All of the inmates who will be released have been convicted of misdemeanors or some nonviolent crimes and have less than one year remaining in their sentence, the mayor said.
They screened out violent criminals [but they think narcotics crimes, burglary and theft, are non-violent].
De Blasio is working with state officials and the city’s district attorneys to release about 100 people who are awaiting trial in city jails and around 700 people who were in jail on parole violations, the mayor said.
“We’re making important decisions about our City jails. No one over 70 or with pre-existing conditions should be in our jail system right now and we are working to make that a reality,” he wrote.“There are approximately 300 people with misdemeanors and non-violent felonies that I’m going to move to release immediately. For those that fall outside my jurisdiction, I am alerting the State and District Attorneys to my concerns,” he added.
We’re making hard decisions about our City budget right now. I’ve asked OMB to initiate a PEG program immediately and I want to affirm that today.
The goal will be to cut at least $1.3 billion and the process has already begun at all agencies. COVID-19 response will NOT be cut.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) March 25, 2020
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Yes, we need to release criminals so there will be cell space for the law abiding citizens who are arrested for leaving their homes after the leftist city and state governments essentially put them under shelter in place demands; house arrest.
To paraphrase the wise words of Benjamin Franklin:
If you are willing to give up liberty for safety, you will neither have nor will you deserve either.
Mr. D,
Why publish ANY news/stories about this Marxist Cortez and other domestic communists ? She is just ONE of 535 Congresscritters. Why do you and many other bloggers/authors/writers, continually bring attention to this scoundrel by putting her name and picture for all to see and read ?
Is this 1/535 Congresscritters THAT important ?
If you want to report on her why not reference just her title/represented district/political party ?
News not reported is, well….NOT NEWS !
The comrades do look out for their constituency and they aren’t all that smart so they will be placated by some redistributed taxpayer money.
Eventually they’ll want more and take it by force as part of the Great Leap Forward redux.
There are dullards out there who will say she is so cute that I will vote for her.
When the millennials take over they will destroy everything just out of spite.
Forward! Yes we can.