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A Policy Brief by Reggie Chatman and Hannah Ellen
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Over the past three decades, New York City has witnessed its crime and incarceration rates plummet to depths unthinkable in the crime and incarceration-ridden days of my youth growing up in Brooklyn.
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“My new life is going to cost me my old one,” recited Harlemite Helen Taylor in a poem she wrote about moving on.
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Today marks the anniversary of the tragic death of Robert Brooks at the hands of Corrections Officers at Marcy Correctional Facility. Just two days ago, Aramis Fuse died on Rikers Island. These deaths, occurring in different facilities and years, reflect persistent and well-documented failures within New York’s carceral system.
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