Zaz Motormouth Post
Sorry for ghosting the past week, y'all. You ever get a curveball that just makes your brain disconnect?
Truecrime level Content Warning
So most states in the united states has a network for victims called the V-Link, and it tracks when an offender in your case is jailed, and their probation/parole status. I was signed up when this ex, who my friends call Dabi* was incarcerated.
I thought that once his parole was up that I would be automatically deleted from the system.
Turns out I was wrong, cause I got a notification that Dabi just tried to ghostface someone else and was reentered into the system, and my brain just pretty much peaced out for the past few days. All my energy has been going into job interviews and Just Keep Swimming.
Ko-Fi Commissions have been sent out, but I'm just getting back to my messages/feed/dm projects and I have a lot of catching up to do. Thanks for your patience, and again- Sorry for disappearing and for the incoming spam reblog notifications.
*After I called my ex (husband at the time) from the hospital that him tossing me around me around the apartment and strangling me was going to require surgery to fix- His response to tell me that he was so happy to have the home to himself and his friends while I was in the hospital, that he danced.
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"The New York City Council voted to ban most uses of solitary confinement in city jails Wednesday [December 20, 2023], passing the measure with enough votes to override a veto from Mayor Eric Adams.
The measure would ban the use of solitary confinement beyond four hours and during certain emergencies. That four hour period would be for "de-escalation" in situations where a detainee has caused someone else physical harm or risks doing so. The resolution would also require the city's jails to allow every person detained to spend at least 14 hours outside of their cells each day.
The bill, which had 38 co-sponsors, was passed 39 to 7. It will now go to the mayor, who can sign the bill or veto it within 30 days. If Mayor Adams vetoes the bill, it will get sent back to the council, which can override the veto with a vote from two-thirds of the members. The 39 votes for the bill today make up 76% of the 51-member council. At a press conference ahead of the vote today [December 20, 2023], Council speaker Adrienne Adams indicated the council would seek [a veto] override if necessary.
For his part, Mayor Adams has signaled he is indeed considering vetoing the bill...
The United Nations has said solitary confinement can amount to torture, and multiple studies suggest its use can have serious consequences on a person's physical and mental health, including an increased risk of PTSD, dying by suicide, and having high blood pressure.
One 2019 study found people who had spent time in solitary confinement in prison were more likely to die in the first year after their release than people who had not spent time in solitary confinement. They were especially likely to die from suicide, homicide and opioid overdose.
Black and Hispanic men have been found to be overrepresented among those placed in solitary confinement – as have gay, lesbian and bisexual people.
The resolution in New York comes amid scrutiny over deaths in the jail complex on Rikers Island. Last month, the federal government joined efforts to wrest control of the facility from the mayor, and give it to an outside authority.
In August 2021, 25-year-old Brandon Rodriguez died while in solitary confinement at Rikers. He had been in pre-trial detention at the jail for less than a week. His mother, Tamara Carter, says his death was ruled a suicide and that he was in a mental health crisis at the time of his confinement.
"I know for Brandon, he should have been put in the infirmary. He should have been seeing a psychiatrist. He should have been being watched," she said.
She says the passage of the bill feels like a form of justice for her.
"Brandon wasn't nothing. He was my son. He was an uncle. A brother. A grandson. And he's very, very missed," she told NPR. "I couldn't save my son. But if I joined this fight, maybe I could save somebody else's son." ...
New York City is not the first U.S. city to limit the use of solitary confinement in its jails, though it is the largest. In 2021, voters in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, passed a measure to restrict solitary confinement except in cases of lockdowns and emergencies. The sheriff in Illinois' Cook County, which includes Chicago, has said the Cook County jail – one of the country's largest – has also stopped using solitary confinement...
Naila Awan, the interim co-director of policy at the New York Civil Liberties Union, says that New York making this change could have larger influence across the country.
"As folks look at what New York has done, other larger jails that are not quite the size of Rikers will be able to say, 'If New York City is able to do this, then we too can implement similar programs here, that it's within our capacity and capabilities," Awan says. "And to the extent that we are able to get this implemented and folks see the success, I think we could see a real shift in the way that individuals are treated behind bars.""
-via NPR, December 20, 2023
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i love the idea of young dad, touya, honestly, like i think it could really work for him in a way.
you meet him when he's much older of course, because he comes by the restaurant you work at on his lunch break, and he's always taking over for anyone that tries to give your car an oil change or tire rotation. and he's always talking about his kids ! his daughter and son, the prides of his life, his reasons for living and best friends.
he never shows you any pictures of them, not at the start, and it's not until your relationship takes a more serious turn that you actually meet them — and you're expecting young kids. seven and five or ten and eight or something near there.
you're not expecting thirty-one year old touya to have a fourteen year old daughter, with green-lined braces and acne on her cheeks, or his quiet, glasses-wearing eleven year old boy that looks just like him.
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Nace Countdown to Christmas - Day 26
(From this post of relationship milestone prompts)
On AO3
A little bonus day and that's a wrap! Hope you enjoyed!
have the kids leave the house and rediscover their relationship again together
Nancy sighs from her spot on the couch, turning back in her casefile to read from the beginning for the fifth time, not processing the words on the page. She grumbles when Ace flops onto the couch next to her, plucking it from her hand. “Hey, I was reading that.”
“Were you really? What’s the case?”
She opens her mouth but nothing comes out, unable to provide a single detail, or even to lie.
“That’s what I thought.” He tosses it onto the coffee table. “Come on, we’ve been moping. We need to do something today.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know. Maybe we need a hobby.”
Nancy laughs, and jabs him with her elbow. She won’t deny that they have been moping, not yet ready to acknowledge this new stage of their lives. “We need a hobby? Is tracking criminals and looking in dead bodies not exciting enough for you? You getting bored of it in our old age?”
“I am not old,” he says, offended. “I’m just saying, it could be good for us to get into something new.”
It’s sweet, the way he’s worrying about this, and Nancy is torn between the way her heart goes soft at his care and wanting to laugh at him for how ridiculous he sounds. The two of them have never needed a hobby to have fun together, and she doesn’t see any reason to start now. “What did you have in mind?”
“Not sure. What did Carson do when you moved out?”
“That was when he and Jean got into antiquing.”
“And Ryan?”
“He was doing his deep dive into the relic trade, so, antiquing.” Nancy says with a laugh.
Ace hums thoughtfully. “I don’t know if that’s really our area.”
“It’s definitely not. But what if,” she begins with a sneaky smile, her hand creeping into his. “We went to an antique mart and just cracked all the safes open?”
A matching grin spreads across his face. “I’d be up for that.”
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