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  May 20, 2024 Truthout

  HUD Targets Public Housing Discrimination Against Formerly Incarcerated People

  For decades, tenants with criminal records have been restricted from accessing public housing. This may soon change.

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  April 30, 2024 LIC Post

  LIC-based Fortune Society hosts third-annual Tech Fair for justice-involved New Yorkers

  New York-based non-profit the Fortune Society held its third-annual Tech Fair in Long Island City on Wednesday.

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  March 28, 2024 NY Daily News

  NYC Mayor Adams names two people to 5-member jail release commission

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  March 12, 2024 City & State New York

  Jeffrion 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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