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  April 10, 2023 Gotham Gazette

  Hochul, Legislators Look to Pass Holistic Criminal Justice Improvements

  While another potential rollback of bail reforms has taken center stage in state budget negotiations for the second straight year, the fates of a swath of other criminal justice programs are being quietly hashed out.

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• March 31, 2023 Gotham Magazine

  Now is New York’s Time to Pass The Clean Slate Act

  This year, New York has an opportunity to move away from perpetual punishment by passing the Clean Slate Act.

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  March 20, 2023 The New York Times

  How Do People Released From Prison Find Housing?

  Thousands of people released from prison in New York go directly to homeless shelters.

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  March 21, 2023 BronxTimes

  The Fortune Society scraps planned men’s re-entry facility in Morrisania

  The Fortune Society has scrapped its plan for a re-entry facility on Washington Avenue in Morrisania that would’ve housed 74 men experiencing homeless and in need of post-incarceration housing.

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  February 23, 2023 Princeton University

  Princeton’s ‘Felon: An American Washi Tale’ theater project explores contemporary injustices

  Alone in solitary confinement as a teenager, Reginald Dwayne Betts called out to the other men being held in solitary: “Somebody, send me a book!” Moments later, Dudley Randall’s “The Black Poets” slid under his cell door.

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  January 09, 2023 KAIT8

  C-CAP Partners with Fortune Society To Instruct the Formerly Incarcerated in the Culinary Arts

  Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) announced a partnership with Fortune Society to provide culinary instruction and ServSafe certification for the Fortune Society's clients.

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