Memo of Opposition: HB 5524
The Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice
OPPOSES
HB 5524 - Increasing the Penalty for the Sale of Fentanyl
Read moreCity Heads West For A Policing LEAD
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.
Read moreCALL TODAY: Knife Rights’ NY Knife Law Reform Bill to Gov Cuomo – Let’s Get it DONE!
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.
Read morePortland Pilot Program Gets People Charged with Low Level Offenses Help, Not Jail Time
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
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.
Read moreSpending Per Inmate In City Jails Reaches $132,019
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
Press Advisory - Report Embargoed until 12 p.m. on Friday, Oct 28, 2016
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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
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.
Read moreLess crime, and fewer incarcerations
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.
Read moreTaking the LEAD
KBOO
Hosted by: Doug McVay
Produced by: KBOO
Program: Prison Pipeline
Air date: Mon, 09/05/2016 - 6:30pm to 7:00pm