By WHEC TV via whec.com ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Protesters and counterprotesters rallied outside of the Hall of Justice Monday over New York State’s “Less is

By: gabriel sayegh via Medium.com This week marks the 35th anniversary of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which Congress passed four months after the death

By Ethan Stark-Miller via The Riverdale Press Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Bill de Blasio took another step toward alleviating what they described as the crisis

By JeanMarie Evelly via City Limits Beginning Monday, the city and state started transferring more than 200 women and transgender people being held at Rikers Island

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