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  December 30, 2023 New York Post

  7 years in Rikers: Man serves ‘longest sentence’ in the notorious jail

  One of the longest serving inmates on Rikers Island is finally a free man — acquitted of murder charges and living with his mother in Boston — but still faces time in the slammer.

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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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  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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  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 16, 2023 News 4 New York

  Clean Slate Act Signed Into Law

  NYS Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Clean Slate Act into law on November 16, 2023. The Fortune Society's Deputy CEO Stanley Richards weighed in on the impact during an interview with News 4 New York.

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  November 14, 2023 The City

  Help, Not Jail, Now Under Construction for People With Mental Illness

  Hope House breaks ground Thursday in the Bronx, promising to be a first-of-its-kind residential alternative to incarceration

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