Alliance Alert: We invite you to join us in supporting the release of Allan Lansbury by signing and sharing this letter.
Allan has spent 30 years in forensic detention and is scheduled for a review in the coming weeks. This is a critical moment to demonstrate broad community support for a just and humane outcome.
Allan’s mother, Jayette Lansbury, is a longtime leader in the mental health and criminal justice reform movements and a valued member of the Alliance for Rights and Recovery Board of Directors. For decades, Jayette has been a tireless advocate for people impacted by the behavioral health and justice systems, consistently showing up for our community and working to advance recovery, rights, and fairness.
Now is the time for us to show up for her and her family.
Please take a moment to sign the letter and share it widely so we can gather strong support ahead of Allan’s review. Your voice can help ensure this case receives the attention and consideration it deserves.
PLEASE SIGN LETTER TO HELP MOVEMENT LEADER JAYETTE LANSBURY’S SON
Please sign this letter to express support for Jayette’s son Allan Lansbury to be released from forensic detention.
Allan has been held in forensic detention for 30 years. It is an abomination and a travesty of justice. Allan will be going to a review in a few weeks and could use all of our support.
For those who don’t know, Allan’s mother Jayette Lansbury, has been a leader in the justice and mental health movements for decades. Jayette is always showing up for all of us, and we need to show up for her right now.
Please sign the letter and please share it far and wide so that we can gather hundreds of signatures to support Allan. Thank you for your consideration.
MARCH 16: END MASS INCARCERATION ADVOCACY DAY IN ALBANY
Please RSVP here to join VOCAL-NY, HALT Solitary, RAPP, CCA, New Hour, Parole Prep, JAC, Visionary V, and other campaigns for an End Mass Incarceration advocacy day in Albany on March 16.
Earlier this year, Senator Salazar issued a scathing report – Built on Brutality – documenting the horrors of New York’s incarceration system and offering a roadmap for addressing the longstanding and acute crisis.
On March 16, we’ll be demanding executive and legislative action to expand fair pathways home from incarceration and transform the environment inside as solutions to the state prison crisis and to end mass incarceration. We’ll travel to Albany for rallies, press conferences, and meetings with lawmakers. Transportation and food provided from across the state.
RSVP here to join us in Albany on March 16 to fight to End Mass Incarceration.
Please reach out to Nick at nick@vocal-ny.org with any questions.
Sign on to Massachusetts Allies’ Efforts to Pass Slate of Legislation
From our allies in Massachusetts: Please have your organization join this sign on letter in support of six key critical legal system reform bills:
- An act relative to medical and elder parole (H.2693)
- An act to build restorative family and community connection (H.2591)
- An act relative to human rights and improved outcomes for incarcerated people (H.2608)
- An act relative to justice for survivors (S.1256)
- An act establishing a jail and prison moratorium (H.3422, S.2944)
- An Act to Promote Public Safety and Better Outcomes for Youths (S.1061)
We are inviting organizational signatories only and plan to submit by March 6. Each of these bills represents an opportunity to reduce incarceration and improve the conditions for particularly vulnerable carceral populations, specifically emerging adults, families, survivors of abuse and sexual violence, and elders. More details on the bills are in the letter. To sign on, please complete the form.
Listen in to the Wright Report Every Tuesday
Please listen in to Jerome every Tuesday at 7:30 pm at this link.
SIGN LETTER TO URGE GOV HOCHUL TO REMOVE DOCCS COMMISSIONER
Please sign this letter urging Governor Hochul to remove DOCCS Commissioner Martuscello.
This week, the Times Union reported that a New York judge found DOCCS Commissioner Martuscello “failed to protect” Robert Brooks when he was tortured and beaten to death. Specifically, “In a 39-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Anne M. Nardacci ruled that Martuscello had repeatedly ignored or brushed off warnings he received for years about systemic corruption in prisons involving correction officers who would brutalize [incarcerated people] and then take steps to cover up their illegal activities with the assistance of complicit supervisors.”
It is finally time for Governor Hochul to remove Commissioner Martuscello. The unconscionable killings of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi in and of themselves should have resulted in his termination. But those killings are part and parcel of systemic abuse, disproportionately against Black and Brown people, that Commissioner Martuscello oversees on a daily basis. From at least three major class action lawsuits finding DOCCS openly flouting the HALT Solitary Law to the New York Times documenting 120 instances of staff brutality against incarcerated people while they were restrained, including three previously unreported recent instances of officers brutalizing people to death, to allowing people to suffer and die without utilizing medical parole or other mechanisms of release, enough is enough.
The Governor and Senate must replace Commissioner Martuscello with someone fully committed to rooting out racist brutality and torture, fully implementing the HALT Solitary Law, and expanding pathways to release. Again, please sign this letter urging Governor Hochul to do so.
We also know that just changing the Commissioner will not in and of itself solve the racism and brutality of New York’s incarceration system and that there must be systemic change. At the same time that Commissioner Martuscello must be held accountable for the atrocities under his watch, we also urge the legislature and Governor to take the following legislative and executive action to expand pathways of release from incarceration for people who have demonstrated their readiness, transform the environment inside New York’s prisons and jails, and protect our immigrant communities.