N.Y. legislative leaders push back on Hochul’s bail plan in state budget

“Hochul’s plan to lock up more people in jail is not addressing public safety — it’s punting on public safety,” said Nick Encalada-Malinowski, the civil rights campaigns director with VOCAL-NY. “It’s saying, ‘We don’t want to actually do the work to address these issues, so we are just going to throw some people in jail and say we did something.’”