Date: 03-24-2022
As of March 14, 2022, there were 4,682 people waiting for their trials in New York City jails. Of them, 2,206 waiting for six months or more, and 1,474 had been waiting more than a year |
From Ver Institute of Justice:
Tarz Youngblood, the first person to die in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex in 2022, was a father of three—two three-year-old twins and a six-year-old. At the time of his death, he was presumed innocent of the crimes for which he was charged and was being held on $10,000 bail. Unable to pay, he had spent more than six months waiting for trial in hellish conditions.
As of March 14, 2022, there were 4,682 people waiting for their trials in New York City jails. Of them, 2,206 had been waiting for six months or more, and 1,474 had been waiting more than a year.
As is typical in the U.S. criminal legal system, the suffering caused by long-term pretrial detention falls hardest on people who are marginalized.
Sixty percent of the people in New York City’s jails who have lost a year or more of their lives to pretrial detention are Black, even though Black people make up only about 24 percent of New York City’s population. Continue reading >>>
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