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  July 20, 2021 StoryCorps

  Honoring the Penniless and Forgotten: A Man’s Reflection On Hart Island

  It is estimated that more than one million people are buried in New York City’s Hart Island, the city’s public cemetery, and the final resting place for unclaimed, penniless or unidentified individuals.

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  July 20, 2021 The Davis Vanguard

  Left and Right Wing Coalition Urges President Biden to Grant Clemency to 4,000 on COVID Home Confinement

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  July 16, 2021 NPR

  Casimiro Torres Remembers Those He Buried On NYC’s Hart Island

  More than 1 million people are buried on New York City's Hart Island, making it one of the country's largest cemeteries. The city has used a potter's field there for more than 150 years to bury the remains of unidentified or unclaimed people and those whose families can't pay burial costs.

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  July 15, 2021 Broadway World

  The Fortune Society Presents WE CHOOSE TO BLOOM, a Virtual Arts Festival Next Week

  From Monday, July 19 through Thursday, July 22, 2021, experience We Choose to Bloom, The Fortune Society's exciting, free four-day virtual festival celebrating community and healing through the arts.

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  July 05, 2021 Times Union

  Let’s keep moving forward on criminal justice reform

  As Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers the hundreds of bills approved by the Legislature this session, he has the opportunity to make life-saving changes for some of the state’s most underserved and vulnerable individuals by signing into law a handful of criminal justice reform measures.

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