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  December 14, 2023 The Fortune Society

  The Fortune Society Statement about the Just Home Initiative on the NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Campus in The Bronx

  JoAnne Page, President/CEO of The Fortune Society, issued the following statement about an innovative new housing model to be constructed in an existing building on the NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi campus in The Bronx.

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  December 14, 2023 City Limits

  Plan to House Formerly-Incarcerated Inches Forward in the East Bronx

  The “Just Home” proposal to house seriously ill people leaving jail cleared one of its final procedural hurdles at a heated public hearing, where locals repeatedly testified that they feared for their safety.

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  December 14, 2023 City & State New York

  Exclusive: New Rikers commission unveils list of members

  The former New York City probation commissioner and a former deputy mayor will join many original members to get the closure plan back on track.

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  November 29, 2023 News 12 Brooklyn

  Digital Divide: New initiative allows formerly incarcerated who missed out on tech boom to catch up

  For Laron Rodgers, reintegrating into society after a long incarceration has been difficult. Despite using a computer to get his master’s degree behind bars, he compares his decades long stay in prison to a time warp in which the digital world passed him by.

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• November 27, 2023 The New York Times

  College in Prison ‘Changed My Life’

  To the Editor: Re "An Educational Revolution Is Beginning Behind Bars," by Max Kenner (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 18)

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