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  September 29, 2022 Daily News

  Solitary confinement: an open wound in NYC’s jails

  The New York City Department of Correction may no longer call how it isolates people “solitary confinement” on paper, but that is precisely what is done in practice. I say this as someone who, decades ago, spent over three years on Rikers Island, and 13 years in state prisons.

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  September 28, 2022 The Fortune Society

  TESTIMONY OF THE FORTUNE SOCIETY: Banning solitary confinement in city jails

  Andre Ward, Associate Vice President of the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, testified at City Hall for the purpose of passing Int. 0549-2022, banning solitary confinement in city jails.

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• September 28, 2022 City Limits

  Opinion: ‘Just Home’ Project Planned for The Bronx Deserves Community Support

  “Fear aside, will our city recognize health care as a human right? If these sick people can’t be placed in a hospital campus, then where else can they go?”

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  September 25, 2022 New York Daily News

  Fighting illness, out of Rikers

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  September 15, 2022

  THE FORTUNE SOCIETY STATEMENT ON THE FOURTEENTH RIKERS ISLAND-RELATED DEATH OF 2022

  (September 15, 2022) The Fortune Society issued the following statement today after the most recent death of a person in the care of the New York City Department of Correction.

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