Losing a place in public housing. Being barred from a job. Suffering immigration action. New York has a menu of “collateral consequences” attached to criminal convictions. Is there a consensus…
A certificate of relief can help you get a job or an apartment to speed your re-entry to society after a spell in prison. The only trick is, you might…
Statistics point at two significant trends: A considerable fall in the number of people applying for parole and a stunning collapse in the rate of their getting it.
A board charged in 2013 with independent oversight of the city’s juvenile-justice detention system met but once before it was downgraded to an advisory board bound by a non-disclosure agreement.…
A federally funded program in East New York will use extensive research to try to predict which domestic violence incidents augur a fatal end, and then employ coordinated efforts to…
Reports indicate the NYPD is under pressure to withdraw a 2007 report on radicalization. Defenders believe recent tragedies prove the report was prescient. But critics have long taken issue with…
An artist who is postering American cities with images of raised hands says conflicting evidence about the killing of Michael Brown hasn’t changed the power of his visual protest.
“In our faith communities there has been an unspoken expectation that our religious leaders would also be community leaders, though sadly this is changing.”
