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  September 19, 2018 Think Progress

  Understanding New York City’s Proposal to Close Rikers and Open New Jails

  NYC is moving forward with a proposal to instate four new jails as part of a longterm goal of closing Rikers Island for good. Stanley Richards, Executive Vice President, discusses how the city can engage the neighboring communities to best support these new facilities.

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  September 19, 2018 The Uptowner

  New York [Residents on Parole] Are Registering To Vote, But Not Without Challenges

  Executive Order 181 opened the door for about 35,000 New York residents currently on parole for felony convictions to register, the governor’s office has said. Yet many are encountering obstacles as the October 12 deadline looms.

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  September 18, 2018 Rikers and Beyond

  When Women Are Left Out of Criminal Justice Reform

  The majority of incarcerated women are abuse survivors, and many are also mothers. As a result, advocates and formerly incarcerated women say, their needs in jail are different from men’s. This audio report, which features The Fortune Society's Amanda Cruz, discusses these issues.

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  September 12, 2018 The Appeal

  In New York, Most [Individuals on Parole] Can Now Vote – But Many County Websites Say They Can’t

  In May, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York announced his first round of conditional pardons granting voting rights to 24,086 of the state’s roughly 36,000 [individuals on parole]. But notice of the governor’s message has not filtered down to the state’s county-level Board of Elections websites.

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  September 07, 2018 Urban Omnibus

  Coming Home

  Due to a lack of affordable housing, formerly incarcerated people in New York City frequently become homeless. But, if they’re very lucky, they could make a home on West 140th Street, in housing run by The Fortune Society.

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