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the art newspaper: agnes gund’s art for justice fund awards $22m in grants to activist groups and social programmes
Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund awards $22m in grants to activist groups and social programmes As well as backing arts-focused initiatives, the money will help support organisations working to [&h…
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film screening and discussion: presumed innocent (1979)
Join us at Interference Archive for a critical look at Rikers Islands’ detention facilities, through the lens of both historic film and as well as the current organizing work of […]
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erie county eyes albany police diversion program
ALBANY, NY – Numbers from the Erie County Health Department show the opioid epidemic in the county could claim the lives of nearly 400 people by the end of the […]
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opioid crisis response ‘too little, too late’
Opioid overdoses took 1,200 lives in North Carolina last year — part of an 800 percent increase since 1999 whose body count has now surpassed 12,000. So when lawmakers approved […]
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naadac opposes senate health repeal
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 — NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals issued the following news release: NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals…
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news observer: nc bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law
NC bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law By Thomasi McDonald via News Observer | JUNE 29, 2017 Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Thursday a […]
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cooper to sign law limiting availability of prescription pain killers
RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Thursday a bill that more closely regulates the prescribing of pain killers, which state officials say has resulted in an increase in […]
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nc bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law
RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Thursday a bill that more closely regulates the prescribing of pain killers, which state officials say has resulted in an increase in […]
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de blasio moves on rikers – but hedges on jail relocations
Nothing about Rikers Island is easy for Bill De Blasio. Two months after responding to activist pressure and dropping his longstanding resistance to a shutdown of the troubled prison complex, [&hellip…
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mayor quietly releases plan to close rikers; criticism follows
RIKERS ISLAND, Queens — It’s one of the very largest jails in the country, but as of Thursday morning, a plan to shut down Rikers Island was officially released by Mayor Bill [&helli…
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albany lawmakers reach compromise on faster trials
Kalief Browder was arrested when he was 16 years old in 2010 for allegedly stealing a backpack. He insisted he was innocent instead of pleading guilty, and he couldn’t afford to […]
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wnyc news: albany lawmakers reach compromise on faster trials
Albany Lawmakers Reach Compromise on Faster Trials Beth Fertig via WNYC News | June 7. 2017 Kalief Browder was arrested when he was 16 years old in 2010 for allegedly […]
