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LaTonya Myers (Credit: Yoni Brook)
LaTonya “T.” Myers, Activist and Bail Navigator, Defender Association
Formerly incarcerated person-turned-activist and the first-ever Bail Navigator for the Defender Association of Philadelphia, a position to help those arrested navigate the bail review system.
Prior to joining the Defender Association, Myers’s life was upended while she sat in jail saddled with a $1,500 bail that she couldn’t afford to pay. She’d been in and out of the system for much of her life, but the issue of unaffordable bail and pretrial incarceration turned her onto activism.
Gave out what she called the Probation Awards, a ceremony recognizing people “doing their best to do good, but living under constant threat of incarceration.”
The Backlash Against Progressive Prosecutors
The terrible stories keep coming: In Baltimore, a man attacked two Asian women with a cinderblock. He has a lengthy rap sheet, including previous assaults. In New York, Donovan Lawson was arrested for assaulting a 63-year-old Chinese-American bus driver. According to the
New York Times, this was Mr. Lawson’s 33rd arrest, despite the fact that he is only 26 years old. In March, a man out on “lifetime parole” for stabbing his mother to death randomly and savagely attacked a 65-year-old Filipino-American woman near Times Square. This week, footage emerged of a woman with a hammer attacking two Asian women who were walking down a sidewalk in New York City.
Orange County, Calif. District Attorney Todd Spitzer argues California is out of control and the rest of the nation needs to wake up. California is out of control and the rest of the nation needs to wake up, Spitzer told Fox & Friends on Monday.
The Orange County D.A. made the comments two days after new rules regarding inmates took effect in the state.
As California aims to further trim the population of what once was the nation’s largest state correctional system, the state is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier.
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