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December 21, 2016 The Official Website of New York StateGovernor Cuomo announces first in the nation regulation to prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage to businesses seeking to hire formerly incarcerated New Yorkers
The effort – the first of its kind in the nation – will make it easier for businesses across the state to hire formerly incarcerated individuals upon reentry.
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December 18, 2016 NY1
Advocates host holiday party for [formerly incarcerated], families in LIC
One Queens nonprofit is connecting formerly-incarcerated individuals with their loved ones this holiday season and beyond. NY1’s Reena Diamante has the story.
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December 05, 2016 The Chief
Rikers documentary provides [incarcerated individual’s] view of harrowing existence in system
These are some of the voices from the jails of Rikers Island that are heard in a new documentary from journalist Bill Moyers, “Rikers,” that was screened Nov. 30 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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December 03, 2016 The New York Times
The scourge of racial bias in New York State’s prisons
The racism can be felt from the moment black inmates enter New York’s upstate prisons. One inmate, John Richard, reported that he was jumped at Clinton Correctional Facility by a guard who threatened to “serve up some black mashed potatoes with tomato sauce.”
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November 10, 2016 Times Ledger
New study shows Sandy exacerbated mental health and drug use issues
Kenneth Brown did not think the projections for Sandy could be true. As he visited a friend in the Rockaways on the weekend of Oct. 29, 2012, he said he did not imagine what the following weeks of his life would entail when the hurricane hit the city, causing significant damage along the peninsula.
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