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Fighting new prison care package ban

December 1, 2022

By: Deirdre Bardolf, Assoc. Ed., Queens Chronicle

Elected officials and advocates on Tuesday called for an end to a directive that would limit package delivery rights to incarcerated individuals in state prisons. Photo, courtesy, NYS Senate

Lawmakers and advocates gathered outside the Queensboro Correctional Facility in Long Island City on Tuesday to condemn a directive from the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision that would limit the package delivery rights of inmates.

Under the new directive, families can no longer directly send care packages, home-cooked meals, fresh fruits or some religious items to their incarcerated loved ones.

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Category: News Articlestag: Alliance of Families for Justice, care package, Center for Community Alternatives, Correction Committee, Corrections Association, David Weprin, Directive 4911A, DOCCS, HALTSolitaryConfinement Campaign, Jessica González-Rojas, Julia Salazar, Katal Center for Health, New Hour, package ban, Queensboro Correctional Facility, Release Aging People in Prison, Senate Committee on Crime and Correction, Sing Sing Family Collective, Theresa Grady, Tzedek Association, Zohran Mamdani

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