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• January 27, 2022 Gothamist

  Adams Once Lobbied For Raise the Age Law – Now His Push to Roll It Back Faces Headwinds in Albany

  In Mayor Eric Adams’ telling, kids are increasingly falling prey to adults who put guns in their hands — an unintended consequence of criminal justice reforms in Albany.

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• January 17, 2022 News Day

  New York’s veterans, disabled and incarcerated focus of new workforce proposals

  A wide-ranging set of proposals from the governor's office aims to create opportunities for historically disadvantaged jobseekers — the disabled, veterans, and the formerly incarcerated among them — for both private and public sector employment.

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  January 13, 2022 AMNY

  ‘A place of inhumanity’: Justice advocates, pols rally in support of Rikers Island hunger strike

  Throngs of elected officials and human rights advocates rallied Thursday outside Rikers Island where hundreds of prisoners are reportedly staging a hunger strike.

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  January 11, 2022 The Real Deal

  Hochul aims to stop landlords’ knee-jerk rejections of [justice-involved people]

  New York Governor Hochul will propose legislation to prevent owners from automatically rejecting prospective tenants because of a conviction or low credit score.

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• December 02, 2021 Daily News

  What those locked away deserve: The value of giving tablets to people incarcerated at Rikers

  In early November, following reports of increasingly dangerous and inhumane conditions at the city jails on Rikers Island, reporter Kathryn Wylde joined a group of business leaders for a tour of the facilities led by Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez.

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  November 27, 2021 The Village Sun

  A playwright remembers Khalil Islam

  Khalil Islam was convicted of the murder of Malcolm X and spent more than 20 years in prison. Last week, he and another man who was also convicted in the case were exonerated.

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