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Gothamist

“Under state law, a physician can hold someone in the hospital for up to 72 hours if they appear to pose a danger to themselves or others and for up to 60 days with the corroboration of a second physician, though such psychiatric holds can be challenged in court, said Jennifer Parish,  the director of criminal justice advocacy at the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project.”

El Diario

“Ante los vientos de cambio en la administración municipal de la Ciudad de Nueva York y el Concejo Municipal, la Coalición de Acción en las Cárceles de NYC (Jails Action Coalition/MHP) en una concentración en el Bajo Manhattan, exigió aplicar reformas urgentes y largamente esperadas en el sistema carcelario de la Gran Manzana, que a su vez, impulsen cambios en todas las prisiones del estado.”

The City

"The population has spiked from a pandemic-era low of roughly 3,800 to 7,022 as of Tuesday. The suffering and harm inflicted on thousands of people in the city jails cannot be ignored,” said Jennifer Parish, director of Criminal Justice Advocacy at the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project.

Amsterdam News

"When I look at the public defenders behind me and the folks from Freedom Agenda and the Jails Action Coalition [part of the Mental Health Project], there is nobody better equipped to tell us what the path forward looks like.”

The City

“It’s unfortunate that we need legislation to set forth basic provisions for how deaths in custody should be treated,” Jennifer Parish, the director of criminal justice advocacy at [the Mental Health Project of] the Urban Justice Center, told THE CITY.”

Morningstar

“Ann Biddle, a litigation supervisor at [Mental Health Project of] the Urban Justice Center, who specializes in Social Security disability law, said while Americans may be used to hearing that their credit-card data and name may have been hacked in a data breach, that's quite different from sensitive medical information being revealed broadly."