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January 31, 2026 NY PIX 11Formerly incarcerated individual appointed head of NYC Department of Correction
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Stanelly Richards as the first formerly incarcerated individual to lead the Department of Correction on Saturday.
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January 31, 2026 Queens Daily Eagle
Mamdani appoints Stanley Richards as next correction commissioner
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday appointed Stanley Richards, the former head of The Fortune Society, to serve as the city’s next commissioner of the Department of Correction.
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January 31, 2026 New York 1 News
Mamdani names new Department of Correction commissioner
Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Stanley Richards as the new commissioner of the city’s Department of Correction on Saturday. Richards will become the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails.
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January 31, 2026 New York Times
Mamdani Names Nonprofit Leader and ExRikers Inmate to Run N.Y.C. Jails
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new leader on Saturday to run New York City’s Department of Correction, selecting Stanley Richards to helm the agency just days after a federal judge placed a former C.I.A. officer in control of the city’s troubled jail complex on Rikers Island.
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January 30, 2026 New York Daily News
Mamdani names ex-inmate to run Corrections Dept.
Mayor Mamdani announced his appointment of five new city agency commissioners.
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