Elected officials, advocates, and family members of incarcerated individuals rallied Tuesday outside Queensboro Correctional Facility in Long Island City to demand inmates be eligible to receive care packages from family members.
Demonstrators charged against state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Directive #4911A, a new program that went into effect over the summer, preventing those behind bars from receiving packages. Speakers denounced the policy since they say these parcels contain food and feminine hygiene supplies.
Aqirah Stanley says she was pregnant while imprisoned and that money earned while working inside is not enough to purchase commissary food. “Keep in mind that the items that are sold in commissary and facilities are often much more expensive than they even are at the supermarket. Think about when you go to the supermarket and you see the impact of cost increases of inflation, how that impacts any one of us who is able to go to the supermarket. And then imagine the impact that we see when that translates to vendors, to commissary, to items that are sold in correctional facilities,” Salazar said.
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