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the mayor is all out of answers
The Mayor Is All Out Of Answers
The Village Voice In the last State of the City address of his first term, Mayor Bill de Blasio stood on the stage of Harlem’s Apollo Theater and returned to the theme of mounting inequality whic…
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coba battles those who want to close rikers island
New York Amsterdam News
Amsterdam News New York City Councilman Danny Dromm of Queens wants to close Rikers Island. The Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association has something to say about that this election season. In J…
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Amsterdam News: Coba battles those who want to close Rikers Island
Amsterdam News
COBA battles those who want to close Rikers Island Stephon Johnson | February 10, 2017 New York City Councilman Danny Dromm of Queens wants to close Rikers Island. The Correction Officers’ Benevolen…
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close rikers’ activists close in on de blasio re-election fundraiser
Metro
Metro As Mayor Bill de Blasio welcomed guests for a private re-election fundraiser in Park Slope Monday night, a group of uninvited visitors gathered outside to give them an earful about the problems…
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portland pilot program gets people charged with low level offenses help, not jail time
The Skanner
The Skanner To lower the number of people entering the criminal justice system, a program called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, or LEAD, puts treatment ahead of arrests. In the coming months Port…
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‘i lost four years with my father’: protesters renew calls to shut down rikers
Rewire Rikers has become a symbol among activists of a rotten prison system, plagued with a history of reported excessive force used against inmates. More than 275 protesters held a march on Sunday to…
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held indefinitely: will anything ever change at rikers island?
City & State New York
City & State New York Last fall, a group of New School students decided to participate in some subway vandalism. After noticing the official MTA subway map didn’t have Rikers Island labeled, the…
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spending per inmate in city jails reaches $132,019
New York Amsterdam News
Amsterdam News The rate of fight and assault infractions in New York City jails skyrocketed 25 percent in Fiscal Year 2016, even as per-inmate spending grew to $132,019 and the average daily number of…
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defender organizations, elected officials call on cuomo to sign gravity knives reform legislation
New York Amsterdam News
Amsterdam News The Legal Aid Society and Brooklyn Defender Services joined with other defender organizations, community advocates, stakeholders and elected officials this week calling on Gov. Andrew C…
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amsterdam news: defender organizations, elected officials call on cuomo to sign gravity knives reform legislation
Amsterdam News
Defender organizations, elected officials call on Cuomo to sign gravity knives reform legislation by CYRIL JOSH BARKER via Amsterdam News | 12/1/2016 The Legal Aid Society and Brooklyn Defender Ser…
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the week ahead in new york politics, november 14
Gotham Gazette
Gotham Gazette Members of the media, people in politics, and many others continue to explain Donald Trump’s surprising victory in the Presidential race, and to monitor his transition efforts. There…
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Harvard Gazette: less crime, and fewer incarcerations
The Harvard Gazette
Less crime, and fewer incarcerations by Sibella Matthews via The Harvard Gazette | October 28, 2016 Overflowing prison populations and high rates of violent crime once made New York City a metaphor…
