A new report from the Legal Aid Society this week details the failures of local and state governments to decarcerate its jails and prisons as the pandemic raged inside of them.
Read MoreA group of nearly 100 organizations demanded on Monday that the governor and legislative leaders increase funding for the implementation of New York’s Raise the Age laws in the state’s budget, which is due in a little less than a month.
Read More“While we as citizens have the constitutional right to participate in our civic process on all levels, in New York State that opportunity is stripped from those people who are in jail waiting for their court dates.”
Read MoreThe Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt by Queens prosecutors to overturn a ruling made by a mid-level court earlier this year that found that a local man had been wrongfully convicted of a Bayside murder three decades ago.
Read MoreThe city’s largest public defender group is lobbying state and city officials to up their funding as the state’s budget season approaches its final weeks and the city’s negotiations begin to kick off.
Read MoreThe city submitted its action plan to turn around the dysfunction on Rikers Island last week. Advocates say it’s not enough.
Read MoreDawn White has lived in her rented Rosedale home with her family for two decades. After an ownership change, she now faces eviction proceedings. A new bill could change that, White and advocates say.
Read MoreThe three officers from the 105th Precinct got cash payments for tipping off a towing company to car crashes, feds say. In an unrelated incident, one of the officers also trafficked heroin.
Read More“I think it’s going to radically transform who’s going to get their green cards in this country.”
Read MoreThe program fights the denial of jobs or licenses based on an applicant’s history of court-involvement or arrests.
Read MoreCorrection officers reportedly watched for up to seven minutes before taking action to help Nicholas Feliciano.
Read MoreThough the NYPD does not report racial or ethnic arrest data by precinct, there are persistent disparities in arrest totals across the borough’s 16 precincts.
Read MoreAdvocates blame the results on the law’s limited scope and a lack of awareness of the measure.
Read MoreA Queens man say he has contacted about 150 brokers and agents in the past year, and has run into the same obstacle over and over again.
Read MoreThe Legal Aid Society urged Katz to stick to her campaign promises and abolish cash bail, establish a conviction review unit and not prosecute low-level crimes.
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