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New Law Requires Data Reporting on Solitary Confinement Conditions in NYC Jails
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law on Thursday a bill that will provide transparency on who gets placed into solitary confinement in the city’s jails. Inmates sentenced to solitary confinement...
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Help, Not Incarceration
NEW YORK—Anthony Cruz is a different man now that he has been locked up several times. Before serving his 10-year sentence in New York state prisons for manslaughter in the first degree he was...
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Probe Finds Porous Security at NYC’s Rikers Island
NEW YORK—New York City jail officials plan tighter screening of guards and other employees after a city investigation found they were easily able to smuggle vodka, heroin, marijuana, and razor blades...
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Rikers Island More Violent? No, Just More Pepper Spraying, Says Correction...
NEW YORK—A record number of use-of-force incidents at Rikers Island in 2014 may not mean inmates experienced more violence, according to president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association,...
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