State Sen. Gustavo Rivera argues that low-income New Yorkers “deserve the same access to resources to navigate the justice system as middle-income and high-income residents.”
It’s an era of criminal justice reform and a growing consensus that we’ve put too many people behind bars. But two experts say that hasn’t made it any easier for…
The taxpayer-underwritten project would front bail money to people accused of low-level crimes—which describes most of the people arrested in New York City.
Millions of New Yorkers have mistakes on their criminal “rap sheets” that are extraordinarily difficult to fix. But what is a RAP-sheet? Who gets to see it? How do you…
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…