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NC bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law
News Observer
By Thomasi McDonald via News Observer RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Thursday a bill that more closely regulates the prescribing of pain killers, which state officials say […]
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De Blasio moves on Rikers – but hedges on jail relocations
POLITICO
By Gloria Pazmino and Conor Skelding via POLITICO Nothing about Rikers Island is easy for Bill De Blasio. Two months after responding to activist pressure and dropping his longstanding resistance to…
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Mayor quietly releases plan to close Rikers; criticism follows
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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
WNYC
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
WNYC News
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 stealing […]
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Saratogian: Kerry Kennedy calls on passage of bill for speedy trials
The Saratogian
ALBANY, N.Y. >> Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ex-wife Kerry Kennedy called Monday for passage of a bill to guarantee speedy trials to defendants who are being held in pre-trial detention for […]
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Communities seek strategies to combat opioid epidemic
The Daily Gazette
By Brett Samuels via The Daily Gazette Harry Brust looked up from the chair next to his prison cot, its sheet neatly tucked under the mattress, and recalled his first […]
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Criminal justice advocates call on De Blasio to provide discount fares for poor new yorkers
StreetsBlog NYC
By David Meyer via StreetsBlog NYC As of May 15, 5,137 people have been arrested for fare evasion this year. Criminal justice advocates gathered outside City Hall this morning to call […]
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StreetsBlog NYC: Criminal justice advocates call on De Blasio to provide discount fares for poor new yorkers
StreetsBlog NYC
Criminal Justice Advocates Call on de Blasio to Provide Discount Fares for Poor New Yorkers As of May 15, 5,137 people have been arrested for fare evasion this year. By David […]
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Advocates push for non-jail program
New Haven Independent
by Thomas Breen via the New Haven Independent The police get a call from Walmart that somebody has been caught shoplifting. The officers run the offender’s criminal history, and quickly find [&hell…
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new haven independent: non-jail program for low-level offenders pitched in the hill
New Haven Independent
Non-Jail Program For Low-Level Offenders Pitched In The Hill by THOMAS BREEN | May 10, 2017 The police get a call from Walmart that somebody has been caught shoplifting. The officers…
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Advocates set up a mock “supervised injection facility” in Lafayette Park
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A traveling exhibit modeling a pop-up “safer consumption space” was set up in Lafayette Square Wednesday afternoon. Buffalo is one of ten cities on the traveling exhibit…
