COALITIONS LEADING THE FIGHT ON HOUSING, CLIMATE, EDUCATION, AND AN INCLUSIVE SAFETY NET CALL FOR REJECTION OF ANY BUDGET DEAL WITH BAIL LAW CHANGES TO INCREASE PRETRIAL JAILING

(New York) – Today, days after the official due date of the budget, the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition, CUNY Rising Alliance, Housing Justice for All, Sunrise Movement NYC, and the Alliance for Quality Education, collectively representing over 200 organizations statewide, released the following statement in response to actions by Governor Kathy Hochul to hold up the budget unless legislators capitulate to her plan to upend the bail law to jail more Black, brown, and low-income people…