Parole Reform Squabble Has Left Hundreds Sitting in New York Jails
By Chris Gelardi via New York Focus At the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, at least 91 people had been waiting for March 1 to roll around. On that date, most aspects of New York state’s new parole reform law went into full effect, and those who had been held on warrants issued by […]
Parole Reform Squabble Leaves Hundreds in New York Jails
By Chris Gelardi via The American Prospect At the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, at least 91 people had been waiting for March 1 to roll around. On that date, most aspects of New York state’s new parole reform law went into full effect, and those who had been held on warrants […]
NY is closing 6 prisons Thursday. What will it mean for local economies?
Tiffany Cusaac-Smith via Poughkeepsie Journal Correctional facilities in Rochester, Fishkill and Southport are among six New York prisons shuttering Thursday, amid diminishing prison populations and the implementation of key reforms aimed at curbing incarceration. At the close of business Thursday, Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill and the Rochester Correctional Facility will be two of six that will close, […]
