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  March 21, 2022 Patch

  Jeff Bezos Ex Gives $10M To LIC Nonprofit Amid Bail Reform Fight

  Mackenzie Scott, philanthropist and former wife of the Amazon CEO, channeled funds to a Queens organization fighting mass incarceration.

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  March 16, 2022 Indy Week

  Persons Instead of Prisoners: Durham Commissioners Approve ‘People-First’ Resolution

  The resolution encourages a new way of describing people who have had contact with the criminal justice system.

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  March 14, 2022 Patch

  Fortune Society Unveils 2022 Legislative Agenda

  Fortune's priorities include reforms that protect and support justice-involved individuals in housing, parole, incarceration, and the courts

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  March 02, 2022 I Love The Upper West Side

  VIDEO: Fortune Society Execs Field Questions — Some Heated — About 258 West 97th Street

  At Community Board 7′s housing committee meeting on Monday evening, executives from The Fortune Society presented the non-profit’s plans to convert 258 West 97th Street into supportive housing for formerly incarcerated individuals as well as low-income residents. The project will be called Castle IV.

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  March 01, 2022 West Side Rag

  The Community Responds to the Supportive Housing Program Coming to West 97th Street

  Residents of the upper west 90s expressed open-mindedness — laced with worry — about the new permanent supportive housing program being created at 258 W. 97th Street, which previously was an illegal hotel.

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  March 02, 2022 City Limits

  Dilapidated Apartments, Lousy Landlords Plague NYC’s Sprawling ‘Scattered-Site’ Supportive Housing Network

  There are some 16,000 scattered-site supportive housing units across the city, rented and overseen by nonprofits contracted to provide services to tenants. But outdated contracts that trail actual market rents mean the organizations—and the state and city agencies that fund them—are propping up some of the city’s worst housing.

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