Statement of Unity Opposing Rollbacks to Bail Reform

Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Senate continue to push for the vast expansion of pretrial incarceration through budget negotiations that have been upended in an unprecedented way by the COVID19 crisis. They want to subject thousands more of us, our families, our neighbors and our loved ones to indefinite detention by giving judges new expansive powers to remand. We are united in our opposition to this effort and say together: 

“No expansion of pretrial detention. No rollbacks to bail reform. No tweaks. No changes.”

Signed,

¡High Mi Madre! LLC

Allegany County Public Defender 

Anti Torture Initiative. Project  

Antiracist Alliance

Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (UAW Local 2325)

Beacon Prison Rides Project

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action Long Island

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action Riverdale

Black & Pink NYC

Black Freedom Project

Black Lives Matter Hudson Valley

Black Lives Matter Ithaca

Black Lives Matter Of Greater New York

Black Love Resists in the Rust 

BlackLine

Bronx Freedom Fund

BronxConnect

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund

Brooklyn Defender Services

Brooklyn Justice Advocacy Coalition

Brooklyn Movement Center

Brust-Maldonado Recovery Services

BYP100

California Legal Research

Call BlackLine

Campaign To End The New JIm Crow CENJC

Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration

CBST Ending Mass Incarceration Team

Center for Community Alternatives

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Dispute Settlement

Center for Law and Justice

Center for Popular Democracy

Chautauqua County Public Defender Office 

Chief Defender Association of New York

Citizen Action of New York

Close Rosie’s

Color Of Change

Common Cause-New York 

Community Access

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah

Congregation Beth Elohim

Congregation Beth Elohim Dismantling Racism Team

Correctional Association of New York

Criminal Justice Task Force, RocACTS

Cuba Cultural Center, Inc.

Decarcerate Tompkins

Defending Rights & Dissent

Deskovic Foundation

Discovery for Justice 

Drug Policy Alliance 

DRUM- Desis Rising Up and Moving

DTruth Unlimited

Elias Foundation

Empire State Indivisible

Empire State NORML

End the New Jim Crow Action Network Poughkeepsie

Enough Is Enough

Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Western New York

Exodus Transitional Community

Federal Defenders of New York

First Unitarian Church of Rochester

First Universalist Church of Rochester 

FWD.us

Genesee County Public Defender

Getting Out and Staying Out

Girls for Gender Equity

Good Shepherd Services

Greater New York Labor- Religion Coalition 

Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition

Harm Reduction Coalition

Hrbek Law LLC

Human Rights Watch

Immigrant Defense Project

Incarcerated Nation Network

Indivisible Brooklyn 

Indivisible Nation BK

Institute for Transformative Mentoing

Interfaith Impact of NYS

Inwood Indivisible

Irvington Activists

It Could Happen To You

Ithaca DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)

Ithaca Prisoner Justice Network

Jails Action Coalition

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Jim Owles LiberalDemocratic Club

Justice for Families

Justice Ministries Committee

JustLeadershipUSA

Labor-Religion Coalition of NYS

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church 

Latino Pastoral Action Center

LatinoJustice PRLDEF

Law 4 Black Lives

Law Enforcement Action Partnership

Law Office of John R Coon, JD, PhD

Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

Legal Aid Society of Nassau County 

Life on the Outside -GIRLSProject 

LIFT

Make NY True Blue

Make the Road New York

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement 

Minorities for Medical Marijuana

MomsRising

Monroe County Public Defender’s Office

Movement for Family Power

NAACP

NAMI NYS Criminal Justice 

National Action Network NYC Chapter Second Chance Committee

National Action Network – Syracuse

National Lawyers Guild – New York City Chapter

National Lawyers Guild, Mass Incarceration Committee

NAWS Central Queens 

Nazareth College Jail Project

Neighborhood Defender Service

New Hour for Women & Children LI

New York Civil Liberties Union

New York Communities for Change

New York County Defender Services

New York Immigration Coalition

New York Jewish Agenda

New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

New York State Council of Churches

New York State Defenders Association, Inc.

New York State Poor People’s Campaign

New York Working Families Party

Nordmeyer Legal Advocates

North Bronx Racial Justice

NYC Anti-Violence Project 

NYC Jericho Movement

NYC Metro Raging Grannies

NYC-DSA

NYCAIC #HALTsolitary Campaign 

NYS Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

NYS Prisoner Justice Network

Occupy Bergen County

Open Buffalo

Pakistani American Youth Society 

Partnership for the Public Good

Persist NY

Plymouth Church – Racial Justice Ministry

Poder in Action

Port Chester/Rye NAACP

Presbytery of New York City

Pretrial Justice Institute

Prison Action Network

Prison Families Anonymous

Prison Writes

Public Interest Resource Center, Fordham Law School

Real Justice PAC

Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP

Revolve Impact

Rise and Resist

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Rochester

Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI) 

Salutation

SBK Social Justice Center Inc

Showing Up for Racial Justice NYC

Social Justice Action of St. Boniface

Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement 

South Central Brooklyn United for Progress 

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Harlem

Students for Sensible Drug Policy

SURJ Westchester

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol

The Fortune Society

The Girl Project/ President 

The Jewish Vote 

The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc.

The Legal Aid Society

The New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents

The Osborne Association 

The Riverside Church

the Young Adult Perspective Project (YAPP)

Transnational Villages Netowork/Red de Pueblos Trasnacionales

Trellis

Truth Pharm Inc.

United Christian Leadership Ministry

United Christian Leadership Ministry of Western NY

United Voices of Cortland

Uptown Progressive Action

Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project

Visionary V 

VOCAL-NY

WBAI’s ON THE COUNT

WESPAC

Westchester  for Change

Westchester Coalition for Police Reform (WCPR)

Westchester Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute for Nonviolence

WHARR, Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights

White Plains/Greenburgh NAACP

Witness to Mass Incarceration

WNY Peace Center

Women & Justice Project

WOMEN GROW

Women’s Community Justice Association

Women’s Prison Association

Worth Rises

Young Adult Perspective Project 

Youth Represent

YVote/Next Gen Politics