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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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  June 30, 2023 The Indypendent

  Dismay Grows After City Budget Deal Axes Rikers Rehabilitation Programs

  The Fortune Society and five other outside organizations have conducted programs at Rikers since the early 1990s that help prepare incarcerated people to have a successful re-entry once they are released.

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  June 29, 2023 Gotham Gazette

  Mayor Adams, City Council Announce Agreement on $107 Billion City Budget

  Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams announced on Thursday a deal on a massive $107 billion budget for the 2024 fiscal year, just days before the July 1 deadline, marking the conclusion of months of contentious negotiations between the two sides of City Hall. The full Council is scheduled to vote the budget through on Friday morning.

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  June 29, 2023 The New York Times

  Libraries Spared but Rikers Suffers in $107 Billion N.Y.C. Budget Deal

  Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council agreed to a “bittersweet” budget that restores funding for key services while cutting others.

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