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  July 31, 2023 The Washington Post

  Licensing barriers keep people with criminal records from education and training

  Nearly 14,000 laws and regulations can restrict people who have been convicted or even just arrested from getting professional licenses

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  July 18, 2023 Legal Action Center

  Advocates Praise US DOJ for Bringing Contempt Charges Against NYC DOC Over Conditions on Rikers Island and Push for Its Permanent Closure

  U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced the intention of his office to pursue contempt proceedings against Rikers Island for numerous human rights violations as well as seek federal receivership of the jail.

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  July 18, 2023 AMNY

  Walls are closing in on City control of Rikers Island as push for federal receivership continues

  Former Rikers Island inmates and their supporters rallied against the latest death in the penal facility on Tuesday as the feds look to wrest control of the city jail away from the Adams administration.

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  July 16, 2023 New York Daily News

  18 months of nothing: Adams panel on convict releases has yet to meet

  Look on the NYC.gov website for the Local Conditional Release Commission - its job is weighing early release for people sentenced to Rikers Island and other city jails - and all you'll see is a page saying "More information coming soon!"

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  July 14, 2023 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

  NYC Supervised Release Program sees significant $37 million funding boost

  New York City's Supervised Release Program has received a significant funding boost of $36.8 million under the new budget agreement.

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  July 05, 2023 The NonProfit Times

  Some Nonprofit Execs Took Hard Road To C-Suite

  An estimated two-thirds of the more than 650,000 men and women released from American prisons each year will eventually wind up back behind bars, some for technical violations of their probation or parole.

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