Activewear Brand Chooses Highly Inappropriate Name For Its One-Sized Leggings ANA COLON | MARCH 14, 2017   Today in cringe-worthy copywriting, New York-based activewear brand Phat Buddha is selling

COBA battles those who want to close Rikers Island Stephon Johnson | February 10, 2017   New York City Councilman Danny Dromm of Queens wants

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

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

Don’t Lock ’Em Up. Give ’Em a Chance to Quit Drugs. By Caroline Preston via New York Times | Oct. 25, 2016   By the time the police found

Why We’re Marching to Close Rikers September 23, 2016 | by Glenn E. Martin & Anna Pastoressa via Gotham Gazette   For years, New Yorkers have been barraged by

State Assembly passes ‘Kalief’s Law’ to reform pretrial detention Stephon Johnson via Amsterdam News | 6/9/2016   Last week, the New York State Assembly passed law S 5988-A

For Immediate Release                                                           Contact: Jacky Johnson (510) 717-2260 | Jacky@justleadershipusa.org Dozens of New Yorkers Join Day of Action in Albany to Push NY Senate to

Low-level drug offenders find new source of addiction help Via Omaha World-Herald | Apr 11, 2016    SEATTLE (AP) — When pondering how to keep low-level drug