Twyla Carter
@twylajcarterAttorney-in-Chief & Chief Executive Officer @LegalAidNYC. Board VP @Who_We_Are_19. Views expressed mine. She/Her.
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At a minimum.
Public defenders should be alotted the same budget and access to resources as the prosecution.
Tenants of Hylan Houses in Bushwick have 30 days to decide on a funding model for badly needed building repairs. Legal Aid is helping by giving tenants the information they need to make an informed decision. More: citylimits.org/2024/11/12/vot… #EmpowerPeople
Exactly how are we to do our job of providing free legal services to low-income New Yorkers when @NYCMayor is late with contract payments? These are the kinds of games that put people’s lives on the line. #WinterIsComing legalaidnyc.org/news/legal-pro…
🧵The data is in. Mayor Adams’s subway gun detection system is objectively a failure, no matter how hard City Hall tries to spin this data. (1/3)
NEW: The controversial Evolv weapons scanners that Mayor Adams' admin deployed in the NYC subway system turned up no guns over the course of a 30-day pilot this summer, the NYPD has finally confirmed after declining to share the data for months.
Meanwhile, @LegalAidNYC & all nonprofits in NYC serving low-income people are woefully underfunded & subjected to problematic contracting & auditing requirements. @NYCMayor Report: New York's police misconduct payouts top $1 billion thecentersquare.com/new_york/artic… via @thecentersquare
We have less than 3 days to stop Texas from executing #RobertRoberson for a crime that never occurred. Though his office is closed today, you can contact @GovAbbott at 361-264-9653 or saveroberson.org by leaving a voicemail, emailing and/or tweeting at him.
To learn more about our work in the tech space, visit Legal Aid’s Digital Forensics Unit website: legalaidnyc.org/programs-proje…
Today, on #WrongfulConvictionDay, I’m thinking of LAS clients–James Davis, Wayne Gardine, and Greg Mingo, to name just a few–and the devastating impact wrongful convictions have had on their lives, communities, and our collective sense of justice. Here are some of their…
No weekly video this week. Read this instead. Abolish the death penalty.
Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man. Governor Parson had the responsibility to save this innocent life, and he didn’t. The NAACP was founded in 1909 in response to the barbaric lynching of Black people in America — we were founded exactly because of people like…
Tonight, Missouri executed an innocent man. Our hearts are with Marcellus and his loved ones. innocenceproject.org/innocence-proj…
I am sad. I am disgusted. I am so angry. RIP Mr. Williams.
To help the Innocence Project and the Midwest Innocence Project stop Marcellus Williams’ execution, keep calling/emailing Gov. Parson until Marcellus gets justice: savemarcellus.org To read or sign a petition calling on the governor to stop his execution, head to…
With so little time until #MarcellusWilliams is set to be executed tomorrow, Sept. 24th at 6 p.m., our best tool is our voice. We must make as much noise as possible in these final hours, as public pressure can make all the difference in the moments leading up to an execution.…
Despite admissions of serious prosecutorial misconduct, including improper handling of evidence, #MarcellusWilliams is still facing execution in four days. His last chance is for @GovParsonMO to intervene. Call, tweet, and e-mail Gov. Parson now and urge him to stop the execution…
🧵Last Sunday, the NYPD unleashed a hailstorm of bullets on a crowded subway platform over a $2.90 farebeat. (1/6)
Just three days before the outgoing police commissioner resigned, he released a new “disciplinary matrix” that lowered penalties for cops who commit various offenses. “Some of the presumptive penalties that they reduced were a little alarming,” said Jennvine Wong, an attorney…
NEW: We're taking our mission to deliver justice in every borough into the digital space! Check out Do NYC Justice, our new 5-borough community resource guide. Whether you’re looking for housing help, violence prevention/intervention, mental health services, teen programs, job…
NEW: A report finds that the NYPD has failed to comply with court-ordered mandates to reform stop, question, and frisk and trespass enforcement practices. Legal Aid and @NAACP_LDF are calling on the NYPD to stop violating New Yorkers' constitutional rights by enacting reforms…
.@twylajcarter, attorney-in-chief & CEO of @LegalAidNYC reported, “The need for funding our mission of defending low-income New Yorkers is about fairness, it’s about giving people a fair chance at justice.” Watch more: legalaidnyc.org/news/twyla-car…
NEW: $82,168,417. That's how much of the public's money has gone towards paying for NYPD misconduct lawsuits so far this year. If payout trends continue, 2024 will produce the highest taxpayer bill for NYPD misconduct in years. More: gothamist.com/news/nyc-has-s…
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