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55 N.Y. legislators urge state to stop suspending elements of HALT solitaryconfinement law
New York Daily News
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
Filter Magazine
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
Amsterdam News
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 […]
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Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic Bill Advances Out of CT Joint JudiciaryCommittee
Yale Law School News April 8, 2025 On April 7, the Connecticut Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, S.B. 1502 (CT DVSJA),successfully passed out of the Joint Judiciary Committee of the […]
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5 Rikers Detainees Have Already Died This Year as Crisis Worsens
By Hurubie Meko and Jan Ransom at the NYTimes April 1, 2025 In the first three months of the year, five people have died at the Rikers Island jail complex […]
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As Deaths Mount in New York Jails and Prisons, Advocates Rally for Oversight: Reporters’ Notebook
By Chris Gelardi at New York FocusMarch 29, 2025 Over the past three months, New York Focus has reported extensively on the New York stateprison system’s descent into tumult. An […]
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NY lawmakers say colleagues are stalling prison oversight bill
By Jeongyoon Han at WXXI March 25, 2025 A push to expand the state’s independent prison oversight body appears to have stalled in theAssembly. The effort comes after Robert Brooks […]
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Advocates at state Capitol call for better prison, jail oversight
By WNYT at News Channel 13 March 25, 2025 People at the New York State Capitol are calling for more oversight of prisons and jails.This comes as the safety of […]
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Woman detainee dies at Rikers, fourth death in 30 days amid spike in NYC jails population
By Graham Rayman at the Daily NewsMarch 20, 2025 A woman held on Rikers Island died by possible suicide early Thursday, according to correction officials and sources. The death, an […]
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‘Dysfunction, violence and neglect’: Independent Rikers Commission releases new blueprint for island jail’s closure
By Jada Camille at amNYMarch 19th, 2025 The Independent Rikers Commission, a collective tasked with examining the city’s plan to close Rikers Island, has unveiled a critical blueprint for reform [&h…
