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  June 15, 2023 New York Post

  How I learned to play the piano in prison — with a sheet of paper and my memory

  Chontay Smith taught himself how to play the piano — without a piano.
  The would-be ivory-tinkler was more than a decade into a 24-year bid, back in 2009 at Green Haven Correctional Facility in upstate New York, when he felt the bite of the music bug.

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• June 08, 2023 The Fortune Society

  The Fortune Society: Building Better Futures Through An Innovative Approach to Housing Development Opportunities

  Organization teams up with FJC to create a Donor Advised Fund to support new supportive housing developments in New York City

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  June 08, 2023 Yahoo News

  NYC jails no longer announce inmate deaths. Critics warn this could start a ‘problematic trend.’

  New York City’s Department of Correction, which includes one of the United States’ deadliest jails, will no longer inform the public of inmate fatalities, a move that criminal justice experts say could set a harmful precedent for other jails across the country.

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  June 07, 2023 New York Daily News

  Federal control of Rikers Island, other NYC jails backed in proposed City Council resolution by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Comptroller Brad Lander

  Two of New York City’s top elected officials — Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Comptroller Brad Lander — plan a City Council resolution backing a federal takeover of Rikers Island and the rest of the city’s jail system.

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  June 07, 2023 NonProfitTalk

  Rikers and Controversy at the Board of Correction

  Dysfunction at the Board of Correction and the ongoing crisis at Rikers Island. The Fortune Society's Stanley Richards discusses the issue.

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