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Pages tagged "decriminalization"

Memo of Opposition: HB 5524

Posted on Blog · May 28, 2019 11:55 AM

The Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice

OPPOSES

HB 5524 - Increasing the Penalty for the Sale of Fentanyl

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International End Violence Against Sex Workers Day

Posted on Blog · December 13, 2018 1:50 PM

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City Heads West For A Policing LEAD

Posted on Blog · April 10, 2017 7:51 AM

New Haven Independent

Eleven New Haven officials and activists flew to Seattle to seek an effective alternative to locking up street hookers and nonviolent drug abusers.

They come home convinced they found it.

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CALL TODAY: Knife Rights’ NY Knife Law Reform Bill to Gov Cuomo – Let’s Get it DONE!

Posted on Blog · December 20, 2016 2:50 PM

Before It's News

Gilbert, AZ -Ammoland.com)- After three years of effort, Knife Rights’ Gravity Knife and Switchblade Law Reform Bill, S6483-A/A9042-A, has been transmitted to Governor Cuomo. If you live, work or travel in New York, or plan to, CALL the Governor TODAY! The Governor now has 10 days (excluding Sunday) to sign or veto the bill (in other words, by end of the year), or allow it to become law without his signature.

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Portland Pilot Program Gets People Charged with Low Level Offenses Help, Not Jail Time

Posted on Blog · December 08, 2016 12:38 PM

The Skanner

To lower the number of people entering the criminal justice system, a program called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, or LEAD, puts treatment ahead of arrests.

 

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Defender organizations, elected officials call on Cuomo to sign gravity knives reform legislation

Posted on Blog · December 01, 2016 11:01 AM

Amsterdam News

The Legal Aid Society and Brooklyn Defender Services joined with other defender organizations, community advocates, stakeholders and elected officials this week calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation that would treat folding knives as work tools, not weapons. The bill (S6483A/A9042A) is sponsored by Diane Savino in the New York State Senate and Dan Quart in the Assembly.

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Spending Per Inmate In City Jails Reaches $132,019

Posted on Blog · December 01, 2016 10:35 AM

Amsterdam News

The rate of fight and assault infractions in New York City jails skyrocketed 25 percent in Fiscal Year 2016, even as per-inmate spending grew to $132,019 and the average daily number of inmates fell to a 33-year low of 9,790, according to a new analysis released by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer

 

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Event at Harvard Club to Launch New Report: Better by Half: The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Increasing Public Safety

Posted on Blog · October 28, 2016 11:22 AM

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Contact: gabriel sayegh (646) 335-2264

Event at Harvard Club to Launch New Report:

Better by Half: The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Increasing Public Safety

Report Details How New York City Cut Incarceration by 50%

While Becoming the Nation’s Safest Large City

New York: New York City’s sustained and dramatic reductions in incarceration and crime rates point to strategies to safely and significantly cut imprisoned populations in other cities and states, according to a new publication by Judith Greene and Vincent Schiraldi, entitled Better by Half: The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration While Increasing Public Safety. 

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Less crime, and fewer incarcerations

Posted on Blog · October 28, 2016 11:08 AM

Harvard

Overflowing prison populations and high rates of violent crime once made New York City a metaphor for the urban decay confronting America’s cities. But over the last two decades crime in the nation’s largest city has declined steeply, with murders plummeting from 2,200 in 1990 to 350 in 2015.

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Taking the LEAD

Posted on Blog · August 30, 2016 11:59 AM

KBOO

Hosted by: Doug McVay
Produced by: KBOO
Program: Prison Pipeline
Air date: Mon, 09/05/2016 - 6:30pm to 7:00pm

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