Criminal Justice Archives - Page 16 of 18

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The state’s high court allowed foster children to pursue claims that they were denied services and boosted a case challenging the state’s indigent defense system.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2010

Uncategorized

Mother's Day For Inmate 09G0379: The Waiting

Almost three quarters of the 2,422 women in New York state prisons are mothers. In part 1 of a three-part series, we follow one group of children as they travel…

ByPatrick Egan 0Comments

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May 2010

Uncategorized

Billboard Owner Censors Marijuana Reform Ad

The ad would have cited the hypocrisy of arresting users when nearly half of all New Yorkers, including Bloomberg, have tried the drug.

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Apr 2010

Justice

Budget Deficit Threatens Teen Sex Worker Safe Harbor

New York has fundamentally changed the way it treats underage sex workers, replacing jail time with social services–if Albany can afford them.

ByAbigail Kramer 0Comments

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Apr 2010

Uncategorized

Where The Murders Are

A precinct-by-precinct look at this year’s killings reveals that the increased bloodshed is affecting some neighborhoods more than others.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2010

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

NYCHA Seniors Sound Call For More Cops

Residents in East New York’s Reid Apartments say they need more help from police to protect vulnerable residents from crime.

ByDanny Gold 1Comment

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Feb 2010

Uncategorized

When Your Dad's Behind Bars

To one boy in Bed-Stuy, a program for children of the incarcerated makes a difference.

ByPatrick Egan 0Comments

05

Jul 2009

Justice

City Limits estimates that the yearly cost to government for investigation, contraband seizures, arrests, judicial processing, incarceration, parole hearings and probation services for all those arrested in drug cases in…

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

05

Jul 2009

Government Justice

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

Despite the extraordinarily low crime levels and the near total absence of drugs from the city’s public discourse these days, nearly a quarter of a million people in New York…

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Government Justice

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

On Feb. 26, 1988, members of a drug gang murdered a 22-year-old rookie police of?cer named Edward Byrne, who was sitting guard in a patrol car outside the home of…

BySean Gardiner 3Comments

Key Court Rulings On Criminal Defense, Foster Care

Mother's Day For Inmate 09G0379: The Waiting

Billboard Owner Censors Marijuana Reform Ad

Budget Deficit Threatens Teen Sex Worker Safe Harbor

Where The Murders Are

NYCHA Seniors Sound Call For More Cops

When Your Dad's Behind Bars

In the Drug War, a Stalemate?

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

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