In the immediate weeks following the forced departure of Queens Defenders’ controversial executive director, Lori Zeno, the atmosphere inside the legal services nonprofit felt noticeably lighter.
Read MoreQueens Defenders, the World’s Borough’s largest public defender organization, is facing an uncertain future after the city said that it no longer trusted the firm to carry out the promise of a $32 million contract to provide criminal defense to low-income New Yorkers in Queens.
Read More“When these detainees' right to a speedy resolution of their cases isn't realized, Rikers functions as a de facto prison.”
Read MoreThe new estimate reflects the expected impacts bail reform and other state criminal justice reform measures on the number of pretrial detainees in the city’s jails.
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