The leaders of New York’s courts, a number of elected officials, lawyers and advocates together on Friday called on the state to reform its court system in a way that they say will prevent the cycle of incarceration hundreds of mentally ill New Yorkers experience every year.
Read MoreTami Eldridge is one of over 1,800 people with a clemency application pending with Governor Kathy Hochul, who has yet to commute the sentence of a single woman who applied for clemency since she took office four years ago.
Read MoreNew York’s court leaders have called for expanded civil legal services for years. But in the face of massive federal funding cuts for social services enacted earlier this year, they said last week that the funding has never been more desperately needed.
Read MoreA popular bill that would remove the population limit on new judicial seats appears unlikely to make it through the state legislature this year, but lawmakers say their plan to make a drastic change to the state’s constitution is very much alive.
Read MoreCurrent technological funding and investments for legal aid services is still insufficient despite years of increased spending, a new report from the NY Commission on Access to Justice says.
Read MoreQueens’ Civil and Criminal Courts have proven to be leaders in addressing stubborn backlogged cases, outperforming city and state courthouses in a number of metrics through the first half of the year.
Read MoreNew York’s top judge on Monday called on lawmakers and judges to enact major sentencing reforms to address a criminal justice system in New York that “just isn’t working.”
Read MoreTop officials in New York’s court system called on Albany to boost their budget next year by $268.2 million, bringing their total budget to $3 billion.
Read MoreWith the city’s legally-mandated deadline to close Rikers Island now less than three years away, top court officials this week said that they plan to make a number of reforms in the city’s criminal courts in an effort to lower the jail’s population, which, as of now, is nearly twice as large as what can be held in Rikers’ replacements.
Read MoreNew York’s top judge last week urged Albany to pass into law a pair of bills that he said would go a long way toward reforming the state’s sentencing laws and toward correcting historic inequities in the state’s criminal justice system.
Read MoreChief Judge Rowan Wilson doesn’t just want to reimagine how New York’s courts operate, he wants to reimagine why they operate. For the first time since taking office as the top judge in the state last spring, Wilson delivered his State of the Judiciary speech from the Court of Appeals’ courtroom in Albany on Tuesday.
Read MoreDemocrats in the state legislature voted on Monday to toss out congressional redistricting lines drawn by a bipartisan commission, choosing to draw and propose their own maps – which have little impact on district boundaries in Queens.
Read MoreLeadership of the state’s court system asked lawmakers on Thursday to approve their proposed $2.7 billion budget, which comes in over 5 percent larger than their budget for the previous year.
Read MoreNew York’s top court on Tuesday ordered the state to redraw its congressional districts, ruling that the state’s current congressional district lines, which were drawn by a court-appointed special master and used in the 2022 elections, deprived New Yorkers of their constitutional rights.
Read MoreThe commission charged with determining the salaries for New York State judges, lawmakers and top officials in the executive branch officially recommended pay raises for the state’s judiciary this week.
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