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Prison Confiscates Incarcerated Journalist’s Typewriter After She Writes for New York Focus. A week after incarcerated journalist Sara Kielly published an article criticizing the prison system for its solitary confinement practices, officers ransacked her cell. Chris Gelardi.
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Trans Man Forced to Undergo Prison Genital Exams Wins $275,000 Settlement. He hopes the settlement will lead to reforms in New York prisons, where three-quarters of trans people say corrections officers have inappropriately touched or sexually assaulted them. …
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Sep 26, 2024 · Prison Confiscates Incarcerated Journalist’s Typewriter After She Writes for New York Focus. A week after incarcerated journalist Sara Kielly published an article criticizing the prison system for its solitary confinement practices, officers ransacked her cell. Chris Gelardi · October 4, 2024.
Your Guide to New York State's 2024 Elections
1 day ago · Chris Bragg and Sam Mellins · October 16, 2024. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Election Day is less than three weeks away, and while New York isn’t one of the seven swing states that will likely decide the presidential election, there are still a number of important issues for Empire State residents to vote on.
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Your One-Stop Guide to the 2024 New York State Budget
Apr 20, 2024 · A version of good cause eviction and new hate crimes are in; new taxes on the wealthy and education cuts are out. Here’s where things landed in this year’s budget. New York Focus · April 20, 2024. On Saturday morning, state leaders printed the "big ugly" — the last of ten bills used to set this year's budget. | Maia Hibbett.
As It Happened: Kathy Hochul on the State of the State - New …
Jan 9, 2024 · Stay Focused. It was the first in a series of big days in Albany. At 1 pm, Governor Kathy Hochul gave her 2024 State of the State address, outlining the past year’s achievements and the coming year’s priorities. The speech kicks off what’s sure to be a tense legislative session, as November’s elections loom and the governor and ...
Judge Strikes Abortion Referendum From November Ballot - New …
May 7, 2024 · New York’s Equal Rights Amendment, which would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state, has been ordered off the November ballot, after a judge ruled that lawmakers didn’t follow the appropriate procedure in passing it. Two years ago, the state’s Democratic Party moved fast to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v.
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Despite State Measures, New Yorkers Fear Health Care Over Medical Debt Lawsuits. Recent legislation has sought to rein in medical debt collection. But the bills don’t stop lawsuits in the first place — and some patients decline care out of financial concern. Churchill Ndonwie · …
Housing Nixed in Latest Budget Talks | New York Focus
Apr 20, 2023 · State legislators in Albany are likely to remove all major housing policy from this year’s state budget, rejecting both measures to boost housing supply and proposed legislation to protect tenants from eviction and homelessness, three sources told New York Focus. State Assembly leadership informed members of the decision this afternoon.