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网页Great Meadow and Sullivan prisons are slated to shut down in November. The state could close up to three more over the next year. Chris Gelardi. Deaths Abound in New York’s Jail Infirmaries. So Do Profits. More counties are turning to private corporations to run medical care in jails. The companies have deadly track records.
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网页New York’s consumer advocacy groups struggle to compete with well-funded utilities and corporations. Lawmakers want to level the playing field. Colin Kinniburgh · August 29, 2024. Trump Plans to Kill Congestion Pricing. Hochul’s Pause Could Let Him. There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding ...
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网页2024年8月26日 — New York’s consumer advocacy groups struggle to compete with well-funded utilities and corporations. Lawmakers want to level the playing field. Colin Kinniburgh · August 29, 2024. Trump Plans to Kill Congestion Pricing. Hochul’s Pause Could Let Him. There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding ...
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网页Launched in October 2020, New York Focus publishes in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works. To send a story tip or provide feedback please see editors’ and reporters’ contact information on our masthead. We can also be reached at editor@nysfocus.com. For more information on how to pitch …
A New Conservative Majority on New York’s Top Court… | New …
网页2022年7月7日 — Janet DiFiore. Anthony Cannataro. Michael Garcia. Madeline Singas. Most New Yorkers have never heard these names. But these four judges form a controlling majority of New York state’s highest court. They always rule in lockstep. They often barely explain their decisions. And as the U.S. Supreme …
Your One-Stop Guide to the 2023 New York State Budget
网页2023年5月3日 — Foundation aid: Hochul proposed a $2.7 billion boost to “foundation aid,” the term for the main mechanism the state uses to fund public grade schools. Both houses accepted this proposal. Charter cap: New York will allow up to 22 new charter schools to open statewide, with 14 of them in New York City. Hochul’s original proposal would have allowed dozens more charters in New York City by ...
Criminal Justice - New York Focus
网页Behind the Badge: In New York City Homeless Shelters, the Same ‘Peace Officers’ Abuse Residents. Previously unreleased disciplinary files expose officers who beat, slap, and pepper spray the residents they’re supposed to protect. Most are back at work within a month. Sammy Sussman, Annika Grosser and Sanjana Bhambhani · April 15, 2024.
State Prisons Are Routinely Violating New York’s… | New York Focus
网页2022年9月12日 — NEW YORK PRISONS are holding hundreds of people in solitary confinement longer than state law permits, effectively refusing to implement the heart of one of the state’s highest-profile recent criminal justice reforms.. As of September 1, the majority of people held in solitary confinement in New York state prisons — 276 people — had been there for longer than state law allows, according ...
Housing - New York Focus
网页2024年4月22日 — Housing Nixed in Latest Budget Talks. “It’s done. It’s not happening,” an Assembly source told New York Focus. Lawmakers are poised to reject measures to boost housing supply and protect renters. Sam Mellins · April 20, 2023.
How New York State Just Rolled Back Criminal Justice Reforms
网页2022年4月9日 — On Saturday morning, after a week of delay, past-deadline negotiations, and last-minute bill-writing, the state legislature passed the final bill making up the New York state budget. Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed the budget package into law hours later. This year, criminal justice issues were at the center of negotiations.
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