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New York's new jails boss once served time in a cell block he now oversees

New York City’s new correction commissioner is the first formerly incarcerated person to oversee the city’s jails

The Independent UK

Zohran Mamdani appoints ex-prisoner to lead New York City’s jail system – Who is Stanley Richards?

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated man as the new Commissioner of the city’s Department of Correction.

The Times of India

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Maintains Sanctuary City Policies

NYC Mayor Eric Adams reaffirms commitment to sanctuary laws, supporting immigrant access to essential services.

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As Second Chance Pell Grant program grows, more incarcerated people can get degrees – but there's a difference between prison-run and college-run education behind bars

People in prison rarely get to go to college.

The Conversation

Idaho firing squad bill forms friction between attorney general, prison officials

BOISE, Idaho — A concerted push to allow Idaho to use a firing squad for inmate executions left out a key collaborator — the agency charged with carrying out the state’s death sentences.

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Organs in exchange for freedom? Bill raises ethical concerns

A proposal to let prisoners in Massachusetts donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions about putting undue pressure on people behind bars who are desperate for freedom

The Independent UK

Detainee dead in plunge from Bronx jail barge fought to overcome 24 years in prison: ‘He was trying to do the right thing’

NEW YORK — After 24 years behind bars, mostly in state prison, Gregory Acevedo seemed like a survivor to his sister and mother — so they don’t understand what it was about being in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction that pushed him over the edge.

Tribune News Service

NYC jail training chief quits after 9 days

NEW YORK — A former Rikers Island official who led its Emergency Service Unit at a time it was criticized for use of violent tactics quit his new post as head of the Department of Correction’s training program after just nine days on the job.

Tribune News Service

Doctor who sexually abused patients kills himself in jail

A once-prominent neurologist convicted last month of sexually abusing patients killed himself Monday at a New York City jail while awaiting sentencing in that case and a trial on federal charges alleging still more abuse, two people familiar with the matter said

The Independent UK

Rikers Island inmate dies of suspected drug overdose, becoming 10th detainee to die this year

NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose.

Tribune News Service

Eric Adams hails progress at Rikers Island despite deaths and ‘full-fledged humanitarian crisis’ in city jails

25 people have died at the troubled facility since 2021. A federal monitor has ‘serious’ doubts about the city’s ability to fix it. But New York City’s mayor claims the era of ‘dysfunction’ is over

The Independent UK

‘I want to capture love’: the intimacy of Jamel Shabazz’s photographs

In a new retrospective of his work, the New York-based photographer looks back on his illustrious career and the connections he’s made along the way

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Records: 2 people in execution knew drugs hadn’t been tested

Newly released records show at two least two people connected to a planned Tennessee execution that was abruptly put on hold April 21 knew the night before that the lethal injection drugs the state planned to use hadn’t undergone certain required testing

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