By Tiffany Cusaac-Smith | via Iohud During her time as lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has said it’s time to “rethink our criminal justice system,” and reiterated that

Daren Jamie | via BronxNet Host Daren Jaime sits down with Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice member Avion Gordon to discuss #LessIsMoreNY Act and the

By Roshan Abraham | via Next City At a July 15 rally outside Governor Cuomo’s midtown Manhattan office, Rashaan Brown said he was working as a

By Reuven Blau | via The City A detainee was held in “horrible conditions” — no pillows, blankets or regular food — in an intake pen

By Keith Paul Medelis | via Amsterdam News At a recent rally outside New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, DeAndre Simmons clutched his hoodie as he

By Ariel Pacheco | via Politics NY Criminal justice reform advocates are ramping up the pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign recently passed legislation that

By Anna Deen | via Juvenile Justice Information Exchange Since being released from New York City’s Rikers Island jail — where he’d been sentenced to four

By Yamirca Vazquez | via Gotham Gazette It wasn’t the eight months of military-style, intense shock incarceration that finally broke me; it was my parole officer.

By Julia Moro | via QNS The state Assembly recently passed a parole reform bill that would break the cycle of re-incarceration that disproportionately affects communities