TESTIMONY
Tanisha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting Parents New York, on Family Separation Due to Unlawful Incarceration
6:06:25
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Tanisha Grant testifies on the negative impacts of family separation caused by unlawful incarceration and advocates for funding to support families.
- Grant describes the generational harm and vicious cycle resulting from parents being unlawfully incarcerated on Rikers Island.
- She calls for the closure of Rikers Island and the reallocation of Department of Corrections funds to support families and prevent crime.
- Highlighting the connection between resource-rich communities and lower crime rates, Grant argues for investing in families to break the cycle of incarceration.
- Emphasizing the importance of parental support, she advocates for services and resources to facilitate productive reentry into society and family life.
Tanisha Grant
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Hello, everyone.
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Thank you, cheer nurse, for this important committee meeting.
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We appreciate your efforts.
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My name is Tanisha Grant.
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I am the executive director of parent support in parents New York, and mom's United for Black Lives New City.
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Tonight, today, I wanna give testimony about family separation that happens when parents are unlawfully incarcerated.
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There are many children suffering behind their mothers and fathers being on Ricus Island.
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This leads to much generational harm in a vicious cycle.
6:07:01
I ask that this committee and the city council continues to hold the DOC accountable and ensure that Ricus Allen is closed.
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I also ask that money be put into the budget to support our parents.
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With services when they come home and resources to stay with their families.
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Parents deserve a productive way to reenter society and stay with their children and their families.
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It is very, very important that we invest in our parents.
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If we invest in our parents, then we are invested in our children.
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We often know that when you have a parent that has been locked up, that sometimes that cycle's over to the children repeating that vicious cycle.
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What if we took all of this money that we give to the department of corrections that we give to Ricus Allen and really invest it in our families?
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As I heard before on testimony, it is the communities that are have the most resources that have the less crime.
6:08:06
So again, I implore everyone to think about how parents are affected and how youth are affected when their parents are held in jail for a long period of time, so no good reasons.
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That is the end of my testimony.
6:08:22
I will be submitting written testimony And again, thank you so much, Chair, for holding this important hearing.
