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March 12, 2024 City & State New YorkJeffrion Aubry, voice of the Assembly, is leaving it after 30 years
The speaker pro tempore was instrumental in repealing the Rockefeller drug laws and building a performing arts center to honor Louis Armstrong.
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March 08, 2024 New York Daily News
NYC poised to restore Rikers, jails counseling funding slashed in 2023
New York City is poised to resume funding outside contractors that help people released from Rikers Island and other jails — but the nonprofits that long ran the programs will have to reapply for the money.
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March 08, 2024 Spectrum News NY1
Banning New Yorkers from the Public Transit System
Banning New Yorkers from the Public Transit System
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November 07, 2025 Queens Daily Eagle
Mayor restores programming on Rikers months after cutting funding
The Adams administration late Monday announced that it planned to mostly restore nonprofit-provided programming for detainees on Rikers Island.
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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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