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• March 05, 2024 The Fortune Society

  The Fortune Society’s Statement About Restoration of DOC Funding for Programming at Rikers

  Stanley Richards, President/CEO of The Fortune Society, issued the following statement about the restoration of funding for programs on Rikers.

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  March 05, 2024 CEO Works

  Senator Kevin Parker and Assemblyman Edward Gibbs Join with Broad Coalition to Announce Introduction of Reentry Fund that Would Provide Nearly $2,600 to New Yorkers Returning from Incarceration

  The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), a founding member of the Coalition for Reentry Cash, lauded New York Senator Kevin Parker and Assemblymember Edward Gibbs for introducing groundbreaking legislation aimed at transforming the reentry experience by replacing the insufficient amount of 'gate money,' the money people receive when leaving incarceration, with an innovative Reentry Fund.

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  March 04, 2024 Yahoo News

  Ex-NYC Correction Department lawyer returns as senior advisor to commissioner

  A former Correction Department general counsel who courted controversy in 2023 when he said heart failure killed a detainee later found to have died of a skull facture has returned to the agency as a senior advisor.

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• February 29, 2024 Queens Daily Eagle

  Nonprofits given ax by DOC last year return to work on Rikers for free

  A little more than half a year after the Department of Correction cut a contract with half a dozen nonprofit service providers, two of those organizations have been asked to again provide programming to detainees on Rikers Island – and to pay for the services out of their own pockets.

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• February 10, 2024 New York Nonprofit Media

  Living a testament to humane, criminal justice reform efforts

  An interview with Stanley Richards, a formerly incarcerated man of color now leading the Fortune Society.

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