Kevin Cleare marched from a police precinct to district attorneys’ offices to courthouses in an effort to clear up mistakes that had somehow burrowed deep into his criminal record history.
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…
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