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<v ->My name is Stefen Short.</v>

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I'm a staff attorney with the Prisoners' Rights Project

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of The Legal Aid Society.

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We're an organization that files class action cases

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for people in state custody

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and people in New York City custody.

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Most of class actions

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are about conditions of confinement in the jails,

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anything from access to proper necessities

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of life whether it's food, drinking water,

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access to services in the prisons,

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commissary programs, things of that nature.

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We also file use of force cases against the city,

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and then we file use of force cases

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in the state system.

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Essentially we exist to create

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prisons and jails that are humane,

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prisons and jails that rehabilitate

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rather than simply punish.