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Big Changes to Parole Are Here. How Will ‘Less is More’ Hold Up?
The City
By Reuven Blau and Rachel Holliday Smith via The City For decades, New York state law allowed parole officers to toss people back into jail for low-level infractions like missing a curfew or [&hell…
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A second chance: How the parole justice movement has gained steam in New York state
BronxTimes
By Robbie Sequeira via BronxTimes Without a second chance, Donna Hylton would have never transformed her life. Without a second chance, Hylton may only be remembered for a traumatic childhood [&hellip…
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Kenyatta Muzzanni: Connecticut proposals would criminalize young people in insidious new ways
Hartford Courant
By Kenyatta Muzzani Via Hartford Courant In the past two years, Connecticut residents pushed for and won major reforms of the criminal legal system, including passing legislation on police a…
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Justice Reform Funders: Stop the Poverty Pimping
Medium
If You’re Really Behind Grassroots Movements, Get Out of the Way By: Lorenzo Jones via Medium.com Over the past 10–15 years, the political landscape in the U.S. has undergone monumental […]
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A cancer patient was sent to prison for DUI. Two months later, he was dead from COVID
CT Mirror
By Dave Altimari and Kelan Lyons via CT Mirror William Lamprecht stood before the judge in a Torrington courtroom in September fearing the four months he was about to spend in prison […]
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Protests for and against ‘Less is More’ law in Rochester
Rochester First
By Matt Driffill via Rochester First ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Those for, and against, the “Less is More” law demonstrated outside the Monroe County Hall of Justice Monday. The bill was signe…
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Protesters, counterprotesters rally over New York State’s ‘Less is More’ law
WHEC
By WHEC TV via whec.com ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Protesters and counterprotesters rallied outside of the Hall of Justice Monday over New York State’s “Less is More” law. The law made it [&he…
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“This Is Your Brain on Racism”: Reflections on the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
Medium
By: gabriel sayegh via Medium.com This week marks the 35th anniversary of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which Congress passed four months after the death of University of Maryland star [&helli…
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The Riverdale Press:Law makes parole violations much more rare
The Riverdale Press
By Ethan Stark-Miller via The Riverdale Press Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Bill de Blasio took another step toward alleviating what they described as the crisis on Rikers Island earlier this [……
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City Limits:Advocates, Attorneys Push Back Against Plan to Transfer Women and Transgender People Off Rikers
City Limits
By JeanMarie Evelly via City Limits Beginning Monday, the city and state started transferring more than 200 women and transgender people being held at Rikers Island to state-run prison facilities in…
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Queens Daily Eagle:Queens leaders lean on DA to stop bail amid Rikers crisis
Queens Daily Eagle
By Rachel Vick via Queens Daily Eagle Days after Queens Defenders issued a letter to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz asking her office to stop requesting bail, lawmakers, advocates and public […
