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Criminal Justice

Opinion: In the Current Debate on New York’s Bail Laws, Data and Justice Lose

Michael Rempel and Olive Lu | June 28, 2022

“By seeking credible data and nurturing a values-based conversation that better elevates justice, state leaders can both serve public safety interests and avoid an unjust burden on individuals and communities.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Eric Adams’ History of Respectability Politics is Holding Him Back as Mayor

Rosalyn Huff | April 20, 2022

“As mayor, Adams now wields more power and influence than ever before, and for this reason, his pro-respectability mindset is a serious cause for concern.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: Displacing and Jailing My Neighbors Does Not Make Me Safer

Alice L. Fontier | April 1, 2022

“Our elected officials are threatening hard-fought reforms designed to counteract the historic – and present – racism in law enforcement that targets my neighbors and eventually will target my son. Meanwhile, they fail to invest in our communities.”

Opinion

Opinion: Gov. Hochul’s Bail Plan Will Upend Years of Reform While Failing to Address Safety

Carl Hamad-Lipscombe | March 28, 2022

‘The likely consequences of Hochul’s plan—job loss, family separation, lack of medical and mental health care and drug treatment, and more school absences—would destabilize families and communities and, ultimately, exacerbate the problems she aims to address.’

Opinion

Opinion: DA Bragg’s Well-Intentioned Reforms Have Little Impact While Racist Policing Persists

Robert Gangi | February 7, 2022

‘Of the 33 cases we at PROP have seen this year, none entailing a serious charge, 30 involved New Yorkers of color—unsurprising since 90 percent of the more than 7,000 cases we have observed since beginning the Court Monitoring Project in 2014 also involved New Yorkers of color.’

New York State Prisons

New Campaign Aims to Reform NY’s ‘Racist, Draconian’ Sentencing Laws

Jeanmarie Evelly | November 18, 2021

The new “Communities Not Cages” coalition is pushing for passage of three new bills that would eliminate mandatory minimum prison sentences in the state and offer incarcerated New Yorkers more opportunities to have their sentences revisited and shortened.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: To Improve Public Safety in NYC, Send Fewer People to Jail

Jonathan Lippman and Courtney Bryan | August 2, 2021

‘Jail separates people from work and family, jeopardizes stable housing, and subjects them to violence, especially in inhumane environments like Rikers. Incarceration must be the option of last resort, used only when it is essential for public safety.’

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Opinion: Bail Reform is About Keeping my Neighbors Home

Chris Taylor | March 19, 2020

‘It is brutal to remove people from their families and subject them to the cruel punishment of incarceration while they are supposedly ‘presumed innocent.’ ‘

bail reform

Opinion: City’s Top Narcotics Prosecutor Responds to an Op-Ed

Bridget Brennan | May 13, 2019

‘Major importers and distributors of heroin and fentanyl, charged with top narcotics sale or possession crimes, will walk out of court with no bail even if they have significant ties to foreign jurisdictions.’

Agenda 2019
A bail business in the Bronx.

Agenda 2019: Eyes Are on Senate Democrats and 3 Key Criminal Justice Reforms

Harry DiPrinzio | November 12, 2018

Reforms to the bail system, evidence-sharing rules and speedy-trial requirements are at the top of the reform agenda—and will shape the city’s ‘close Rikers’ efforts as well.

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