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  • In Brutal Summer Heat, Prisoners Say Their Cells Are Like “Stifling Hot Coffins”

    In Brutal Summer Heat, Prisoners Say Their Cells Are Like “Stifling Hot Coffins”

    July 3, 2023

    By: Victoria Law, Truthout – Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her un-air-conditioned Texas prison cell. The day before, temperatures had reached nearly 100 degrees…

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  • Personnel changes on New York’s Parole Board

    Personnel changes on New York’s Parole Board

    July 3, 2023

    By: David Lombardo, The Capitol Pressroom – Two incarceration-focused bills have advanced to the New York State Assembly Correction Committee. The elder parole legislation has been co-sponsored by 31 people, including state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Robert Jackson….

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  • State Assembly headed back next week to discuss short-term rentals, elder parole

    State Assembly headed back next week to discuss short-term rentals, elder parole

    June 15, 2023

    By: Maury Thompson, The Post-Star – …The ”elder parole” legislation, which has not passed the Senate, would require the Parole Board to conduct a hearing for all incarcerated individuals age 55 and over who have completed at least 15 years of their sentences.

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  • Incarceration bills give older prisoners second chance in New York

    Incarceration bills give older prisoners second chance in New York

    June 11, 2023

    By: Eric Harvey, The Riverdale Press – Two incarceration-focused bills have advanced to the New York State Assembly Correction Committee. The elder parole legislation has been co-sponsored by 31 people, including state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Robert Jackson….

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  • New York’s Prison System Abruptly Halts a Policy Censoring Artists and Writers

    New York’s Prison System Abruptly Halts a Policy Censoring Artists and Writers

    June 8, 2023

    By: Victoria Law The Nation – One day after New York Focus broke the story about the censorship policy, the state department announced that it would suspend the rule impeding creative endeavors in prisons

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  • Editorial: End this lobbying secrecy

    Editorial: End this lobbying secrecy

    June 6, 2023

    By: Times Union Editorial Board, Times Union – Ending the secrecy surrounding lobbying on judgeships should be among the more urgent business as the Legislature prepares to wrap up its session this week.

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