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Questions Over Logistics, Costs of Bail Reform Discussed at Bar Association Panel
New York Law Journal
Questions Over Logistics, Costs of Bail Reform Discussed at Bar Association Panel By Jason Grant | January 24, 2018 From left, Andy Kossover, chair of the NYSBA Committee on Mandated Representation;…
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City & State: Akeem Browder and gabriel sayegh talk Cuomo’s criminal justice reforms
City & State New York
akeem browder and gabriel sayegh talk cuomo’s criminal justice reforms By CITY & STATE | JANUARY 8, 2018 Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a number of sweeping criminal justice reform proposa…
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WNYC News: City takes first step towards shuttering jails on Rikers Island
WNYC News
City Takes First Step Towards Shuttering Jails on Rikers Island By Cindy Rodriguez | January 2, 2018 The de Blasio Administration said it will close the George Motchan Detention Center by the summer o…
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The Art Newspaper: Agnes Gund’s art for justice fund awards $22m in grants to activist groups and social programmes
The Art Newspaper
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 cha…
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Film Screening and Discussion: presumed innocent (1979)
Interference Archive
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 the Close Rikers Cam…
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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 year. Last year, there were 300 fa…
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Opioid crisis response ‘too little, too late’
The Courier-Tribune
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 the final state budge…
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NAADAC opposes senate health repeal
Insurance Newsnet
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 — NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals issued the following news release: NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, joined 66 other leadin…
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News Observer: NC bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law
News Observer
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 bill that more closely regul…
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Cooper to sign law limiting availability of prescription pain killers
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 has resulte…
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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 has resulte…
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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…
