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  July 24, 2018 WRAL

  Mayor Defends Sending Youths to Jails With Solitary Confinement

  The city has banned solitary confinement for individuals under 22. Yet late Monday the mayor defended the city’s practice of “occasionally” sending [individuals] who pose a security or safety risk to county jails where they can be held in solitary confinement. Defense lawyers, advocates and some elected officials continued to criticize the practice, calling it an end-run around the city’s ban.

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  July 25, 2018 Gotham Gazette

  Key Question in Closing Rikers: How to Design Replacement Jails

  The first part of the plan is clear: the jails on Rikers Island will be closed. Less clear is the second part: what, exactly, the replacement jails will look like.

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  July 21, 2018 NY1

  Queens Kids Find Good Fortune for the Coming School Year

  On Friday, at their Long Island City headquarters, the Fortune Society handed out new bookbags to children whose parents were once incarcerated.

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  July 15, 2018 Quartz

  Airbnb is Grappling With How to Treat People with Criminal Convictions

  Marlon Peterson - a social justice activist who was formerly incarcerated - questions Airbnb’s use of background checks to ban those with criminal convictions. In conversations with Quartz, the company clarified some of the details of its policy.

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  July 15, 2018 Forbes

  Tracy Morgan And TBS Made A TV Show And Then They Did This Really Cool Thing

  As part of his new TBS show, The Last O.G., Tracy Morgan, the show and network invested substantial sums in a variety of projects in Brooklyn, and with groups closely aligned to the show's own themes of redemption, such as The Fortune Society.

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  July 06, 2018 Gotham Gazette

  De Blasio ‘Jails to Jobs’ Program Launches

  Within the past year, the city government's “Jails to Jobs Initiative,” has mobilized the Osborne Association, the Fortune Society, and six other incarceration-services organizations — Samaritan Daytop Village, Fedcap, Housing Works, Friends of Island Academy, the Women’s Prison Association, and the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College — to provide short-term transitional employment to every individual leaving a city jail after serving a sentence.

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