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New York City Moves to Ban Solitary Confinement, Defying Mayor Adams (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] Binthinkin@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

When you are running a prison with profits in mind, less staff and automating solitary confinement seems like a good solution.

Less staff means more solitary and more automated procedures. Means less care for inmates.

Personally I would pay more to rehab the inmates so they never have to return to those shit holes.

But for some non-magical reason these leaders are dumb assholes.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

The article is paywalled. Why would the mayor oppose this? Costs?

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago

My guesses are "tough on crime" and "cruelty is the point."

[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago

He's a former pig himself

ACAB

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Install a paywall bypass extension

over concerns about staffing shortages and violence against jail workers. Mayor Eric Adams has argued since he took office two years ago that isolating detainees is an important tool to help protect jail workers and detainees.

The mayor and the union representing correction officers, which also fiercely opposes the bill, are expected to continue to lobby against the ban right up to the vote. But the bill’s sponsors and supporters say there are enough votes to pass the bill and to override Mr. Adams if he vetoes it.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm using Jerboa. Is there a paywall bypass extension for the built in browser? Or is there a better lemmy client I should be using? Android, fwiw.

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Voyager is what I use now. I tried several others first.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Open it in your browser.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Two extra clicks? I'd rather just not read it.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

It's just two extra clicks!
Last time I used Android was years ago, so I don't remember how in-app browsers worked. Don't they have a one-click "open in browser" button like Apple does?

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I was being facetious. But yeah, there's a menu at the top of the screen, and an option to Open in Chrome.

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