Eli Northrup
@EliNorthrup
Public defender, UWSider & Democratic Nominee for New York State Assembly District 69
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Welcome news. NY’s prison system is in real crisis, but building a new facility is not the answer. The way to improve conditions is to keep safely shrinking the system—reducing the population by releasing aging people and those who have demonstrated meaningful rehabilitation.
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Hard no. The answer to the crisis in our prisons is decarceration, not 3,000 more beds.
Shrink the system. Invest in programming and rehabilitation. That’s how we make New York safer—not by doubling down on mass incarceration.
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