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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 27d

#JusticeforRobertBrooks 🗞️🗞️🗞️: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Sep 30

Join #CommunitiesNotCages for our Statewide Day of Action on Nov. 18 at 12pm. Featuring families missing loved ones this holiday season, we'll have rallies and press conferences in New York City, Rochester, Albany, Westchester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Ithaca, and Long Island.

RSVP: bit.ly/CNCNov182025

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Aug 19

Unlocking #SecondChance opportunities in Buffalo next month - Free Legal Clinic Resource Fair - Sept. 29! Scan the QR Code below to learn more about #CleanSlateNY and resources in the Buffalo Community.

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Aug 13

New York State’s DOCCS #HumanitarianCrisis has only gotten worse - NBC obtains new footage of violence against an incarcerated New Yorker: www.nbcnews.com/video/with-p...

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Aug 12

#CleanSlateNewYork Town Hall in Hudson NY on August 23 at 1PM - no registration required. Help spread the word about this panel discussion on New York’s historic record sealing law!

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Aug 5

📢Join us for an informative #LunchandLearn webinar on August 6th at Noon to learn more about New York’s “One Day to Life” law - RSVP here: bit.ly/Aug6th12pm

#ForensicRehabilitationAct

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jul 11

#JusticeforRobertBrooks - New York State Prisons are still in a Humanitarian Crisis - the situation has not gotten better whatsoever. youtu.be/oThPeyxuLqE?...

Bodycam video worn by Officer Trombly in Fatal beating of Robert Brooks

YouTube video by CBS6 Albany

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jul 9

The 5 P’s: Proper - Preparation- Prevents - Poor - Performance! Sign up to join CCA’s Public Speaking & Storytelling Lab: www.bit.ly/CCASpeakingTruth

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jul 1

📣 Only a few more spots left - please apply by July 7 if you’d like to participate!! www.bit.ly/CCAsoi2025

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jun 14

Knowledge is Power ~ apply now for CCA’s Summer Organizing Institute: www.bit.ly/CCAsoi2025

#EndPerpetualPunishment #endmassincarceration

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jun 19

Shut up and dribble ☑️

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jun 14

Knowledge is Power ~ apply now for CCA’s Summer Organizing Institute: www.bit.ly/CCAsoi2025

#EndPerpetualPunishment #endmassincarceration

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jun 6

#CommunitiesNotCages ⚖️ #RestorativeJustice - contact your state legislators and governor to help the Earned Time Act (S.342/A.1085) and Second Look Act (S.158/A.1283) pass this month‼️www.bit.ly/CNCNY

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jun 6

#CommunitiesNotCages ⚖️ #RestorativeJustice - contact your state legislators and governor to help the Earned Time Act (S.342/A.1085) and Second Look Act (S.158/A.1283) pass this month‼️www.bit.ly/CNCNY

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Jun 3

📢Rally in Albany - Thursday June 5 at 11am #JusticeforRobertBrooks #RestorativeJustice

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · May 22

📍ALBANY - End Mass Incarceration Day - May 28. Scan QR code to join!

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · May 16

The Earned Time Act, which would give people in prison more chances to shave time off their sentences, didn’t make it into the final budget, but lawmakers plan to push for its passage during the remainder of session. #CommunitiesNotCages Read: www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/...

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · May 6

RSVP: ag.ny.gov/community-impact-hearing

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 30

Marvin Mayfield Act (S.1209/A.1297) would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences, allowing judges to consider the individual factors and mitigating circumstances in a case and addressing the outsize power of prosecutors to coerce plea deals.

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 30

Earned Time Act (S.342/A.1085) would strengthen and expand “good time” and “merit time” laws, supporting rehabilitative efforts in state prisons.

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 30

Second Look Act (S.158/A.1283) would allow judges to review and reconsider excessive sentences.

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 30

Can you support Communities Not Cages?

Fill out this poll from the BPRHA Caucus of State Legislators on post-budget priorities and include the CNC bills! You can use the bills’ titles, numbers and descriptions listed in the comment section. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2025 People's Policy Agenda: Share Your Input

As we move into its post-budget phase, the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus is seeking input from external partners and advocacy organizations on policy priorities that advance...

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 21

Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." RSVP here: www.bit.ly/FreeOurMoms

Will you stand up for #CommunitiesNotCages to demand justice? Transportation provided across the state.

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 17

HEMPSTEAD 📍- Join us on Wednesday, April 23, at 11 am for a rally and press conference to demand an end to systemic violence and fair pathways home for incarcerated loved ones. RSVP: www.bit.ly/CNCNassau

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 9

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The Earned Time Act has passed the Senate Corrections Committee. Contact your legislators to keep the momentum going: bit.ly/CNCNY

Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · Apr 4

In honor and remembrance of our loved ones—Samuel Harrell, Robert Brooks, Messiah Nantwi, Edward Sholtz, and countless others—whose lives were taken by state violence, #CommunitiesNotCages will hold an interfaith vigil following the press conference. RSVP to join: www.bit.ly/April19Justice