A coalition of legal aid organizations are demanding the city and state launch an investigation after a woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn criminal courtroom, calling the incident “a profound moral failure” of the justice system.
Read MoreLegal Aid Society offices across all five boroughs faced a new push from labor organizations to increase their workers’ salaries, this time with non-attorneys leading the picket lines.
Read MoreLeaders of some of the city’s largest public defense organizations warned last week that without at least $100 million in additional city funding, they’ll risk an exodus of attorneys that would leave low-income New Yorkers struggling to secure legal representation.
Read MoreThe city’s Department of Investigation is looking into the recent spate of deaths of New Yorkers while in the NYPD’s custody, police officials said during a City Council hearing on Monday.
Read MoreThe family of one of the nearly half dozen men to have died on Rikers Island this summer said in a court filing that the city caused the man’s death by failing to get him mental health treatment before he committed suicide, according to court documents.
Read MoreThe city’s largest public defender organization called on the Department of Investigation last week to probe the spike in deaths of those held in NYPD custody.
Read More“Mr. Arnold is still reeling from this violent arrest, during which an officer placed him in a knee-on-neck hold.”
Read More“No one should be forced from their home and onto the street.”
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