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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown, Member of the Public
6:14:26
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Sharon Brown testifies about the need for Bible-based programs to help people restart their lives, citing higher success rates compared to current programs. She also calls for the immediate closure of Rikers Island due to dangerous conditions and criticizes Legal Aid for not taking more action to help their clients.
- Advocates for church and synagogue-based programs to help people get back on track
- Criticizes current programs for low success rates compared to religious-based interventions
- Calls for defunding or withholding funding from Legal Aid for not filing motions like habeas corpus to help their clients
Sharon Brown
6:14:26
go ahead.
6:14:28
Hello.
6:14:28
My name is Sharon Brown.
6:14:30
Before I get started, remember Israel released the hostages.
6:14:33
Let Yahweh's people go.
6:14:35
Okay.
6:14:37
We need bible based programs to help people out.
6:14:42
Some things that come out of the church, the synagogue, they usually have programs and things to help people to restart their lives, to get their lives back on track.
6:14:53
There's not enough success rate in the programs that they're using, so I think they should try something that works.
6:15:01
Even psychiatrists, psychologists, and the like note that there is a benefit with biblical or people going to church and doing things from the church, their lives are different.
6:15:13
And many people you talk to, whether it be drug abuse or addiction, whatever it is, they say dealing in the church, they found themselves on a different path, they got better.
6:15:25
If you call people like that who went into church programs and things like that, you'll find a higher success rate than the success rates that you find here.
6:15:34
So Rikers Island must be closed ASAP now.
6:15:38
There's even someone on the dais whose brother was stabbed or something like that.
6:15:44
I don't remember exactly who it was.
6:15:47
What's happening at Rikers is deplorable and it it's dangerous, and the legal aid should be defunded or at least their funding should be withheld or something because they're standing by passively as things like this are happening to their clients.
6:16:06
They can't see health care and things like that, and the legal aid are not filing motions and things.
6:16:13
They have the leeway to file motions, habeas corpus, to try to get them out immediately, a habeas corpus gets them out.
6:16:21
There's so many different things that the legal aid can do, and yet they sit and complain and they don't do anything.
6:16:28
If you shake up their funding or something, you threaten to take away their funding, maybe they'll fight for them, but close Rikers now, defund Rikers.
Diana Ayala
6:16:40
Thank you so much, Sharon.
Sharon Brown
6:16:42
You're welcome.