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With days left in session, state democrats move on prison reform package
With days left in session, state democrats move on prison reform package Written by Briana Supardi at CBS 6 Albany 6/10/2025 With just days left in the legislative session, New […]
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State Democrats get behind NY prison reforms in legislative session’s final day PDF here.
By Jeongyoon Han at WXXI News PR June 10, 2025 Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly agreed late Monday on a set of prisonreforms that would increase oversight in […]
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State’s prison oversight panel faces criticism, calls for reform
By Robert Gavin at Buffalo News Jun 1, 2025 ALBANY – In the five months after prison officers beat 43-year-old Robert Brooks to death inMarcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, […]
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Eric Adams Loses Control of Rikers Island to Federal Receivership
By Margaret Kimberley at Black Agenda Report May 30, 2025 Our guest is Melanie Dominguez, Organizing Director, New York with the Katal Center forEquity, Health, and Justice . She joins […]
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OP-ED: With Rikers Island, Eric Adams has made a bad situation worse
By gabriel sayegh in Amsterdam News May 29, 2025 The New York Daily News recently ran an exclusive story with the headline “NYC Mayor Adamsexploring abandoning current plan to shut […]
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Advocates call for expanded State Commission of Correction
By Jamie DeLine at News 10 May 28, 2025 ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—Prison reform advocates gathered in Albany on Wednesdayfollowing a monthly meeting of the State Commission of Correction. They say [&hel…
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New York’s Prisons and Jails are Deadly. Expanding Oversight Will Save Lives
By Assembly Member Emily Gallagher and Ziyadah Amatul-Matin in the Empire Report May 28, 2025 New York’s prisons and jails are dangerous and deadly for incarcerated people. For decades,New York [&he…
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55 N.Y. legislators urge state to stop suspending elements of HALT solitaryconfinement law
By Graham Rayman at the Daily News May 27, 2025 A group of 55 state legislators sent a letter Tuesday to the state prisons commissioner urginghim to discontinue the poststrike […]
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Outside “Remediation Manager” Will Run Rikers Island, Judge Rules
By Alexander Lekhtman at Filter Mag May 15, 2025 A federal judge has made a historic decision to take control of the Rikers Island jail complexaway from the New York […]
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Mayor Adams touts $115B budget, doubles down on not closing Rikers
By Ariama C. Long at Amsterdam NewsMay 8, 2025 New York City Mayor Eric Adams unironically dubbed this latest city budget the “Best BudgetEver.” He held a roundtable at Gracie […]
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Psych facility weighed over planned Manhattan jail as Adams rethinks ‘Close Rikers’ Plan
By Chris Sommerfeldt at Daily News May 6, 2025 Mayor Adams’ office said Tuesday that his team has looked into the possibility of building amental health facility instead of a […]
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Beyond the Bubble: Wesleyan Institute for Policy Bridges Campus and Community
By Lula Konner at the Wesleyan Argus May 2, 2025 During his first year at Wesleyan, Odin Marin ’27 noticed a lack of campus engagement with theMiddletown community and its […]
