decarceration Archives

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"One concrete action—NY State Assembly Bill 2025-A767—would establish a Youth Justice Innovation Fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of preventing youth…

ByMichaelle C. Solages

ByChristine Pahigian 4Comments

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Oct 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: NYC Must Live Up To Its Decarceration Promises

"It has become increasingly clear that the Adams administration has committed to expand a policy of mass incarceration over community services and other less expensive, more effective alternatives. The current…

ByJay Edidin 1Comment

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Oct 2021

Government Justice

Advocates, Attorneys Push Back Against Plan to Transfer Women and Transgender People Off Rikers

Beginning this week, the city and state will begin transferring around 230 detainees being held at the troubled New York City jail complex to state correctional facilities in Westchester, what…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jan 2021

Health Justice Opinion

Opinion: It’s Time for NYS to Act on Decarceration in Prisons to Curb COVID-19

Cuomo has failed to implement widely accepted sound public health practices by refusing to release any meaningful number of the state’s COVID-vulnerable imprisoned human beings, and now by failing to…

ByDavid Hoos, Susan M. Reverby, Barbara Zeller and Robert Fullilove 0Comments

Opinion: Courageous Response Must Follow New York’s Latest Prison Death

Opinion: NYC Must Live Up To Its Decarceration Promises

Advocates, Attorneys Push Back Against Plan to Transfer Women and Transgender People Off Rikers

Opinion: It’s Time for NYS to Act on Decarceration in Prisons to Curb COVID-19

Newsletter

Opinion: Courageous Response Must Follow New York’s Latest Prison Death

Opinion: NYC Must Live Up To Its Decarceration Promises

Advocates, Attorneys Push Back Against Plan to Transfer Women and Transgender People Off Rikers

Opinion: It’s Time for NYS to Act on Decarceration in Prisons to Curb COVID-19

Newsletter

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