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Alderman At-Large Joe Kelly Levasseur has never minced words when it comes to Manchester's homelessness problem. In January 2023, when a sidewalk encampment outside the New Horizons shelter on Manchester Street was causing problems for local businesses, Levasseur said in an interview for NPR, “The problems surrounding vagrancy in this city have gone on long enough. We want our city back!”
Shackling harms hospitalized incarcerated workers An incarcerated person must be very sick before the prison administration will allow them to go to an outside hospital. Such was the case for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who contracted COVID-19 as a result of his incarceration in a Pennsylvania prison. Mumia also suffers from congestive heart failure, a debilitating disease in which the heart muscle has weakened and cannot pump well, so fluid surrounds it, making it difficult to breathe, and therefore to walk or run. Pam Africa points to a photo showing bleeding on Abu-Jamal’s leg...