By Rachel Vick via Queens Daily Eagle Days after Queens Defenders issued a letter to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz asking her office to stop requesting

By Emma Quinn via WRGB Albany ALBANY (WRGB) — By March 2022, over $680 million dollars of New York state tax dollars can be redistributed once the

By Clodagh Mcgowan via SpectrumNews1 Henry Robinson says he spent three months on Rikers Island in 2017 for a minor parole violation.  “It’s terrible. It’s really

By Dean Moses via AMNY  The fight to close and decarcerate Rikers Island continued on Sept. 22 with the latest rally outside City Hall, as

By Wendy Wright via SpectrumNews1 New York State Parole officials are preparing for the implementation of the Less is More Act, the Parole Reform Bill signed

By Morgan C. Mullings via AMNY  The most recent inmate death on Rikers Island spurred renewed outrage from criminal justice advocates — and renewed promises from

By Karen DeWitt via WBFO  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday ordered the immediate release of nearly 200 state prison inmates being held for committing

By Emma Quinn via WRGB Albany ALBANY (WRGB) — Come March 2022, missing curfew or being late to a parole meeting won’t automatically land someone on parole back in

By Aundrea Cline-Thomas via CBSNewYork NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Gov. Kathy Hochul acted to immediately free several hundred parolees from Rikers Island and made arrangements to move several hundred more from