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December 22, 2022

Kathy Hochul Pushes New York’s Highest Court to the Right

 Daniel Nichanian,
December 14, 2022

What Off Year? Hundreds of Local Elections Will Define Criminal Justice Policy in 2023

 Daniel Nichanian,
July 12, 2022

New York’s Chief Judge Resigns, Breaking Up High Court’s Right-Leaning Majority

 Sam Mellins,
May 12, 2022

New York Bans Most Prison Care Packages from Family and Friends

 Emily Brown, Rebecca McCray,
April 27, 2022

Activists Monitor the Revival of New York’s Notorious Plainclothes Police Squads

 Tana Ganeva,
April 14, 2022

Prison Officials Routinely Deny Hearings to Terminally Ill New Yorkers

 Victoria Law,
April 9, 2022

How New York Just Rolled Back Criminal Justice Reforms

 Chris Gelardi,
March 22, 2022

Despite Federal Gains, Public Defenders Largely Missing from State Supreme Courts

 Rachel M. Cohen,
February 24, 2022

Eric Adams’s Gun Violence Plan Looks a Lot Like Bill de Blasio’s

 Chris Gelardi,
February 9, 2022

Vacancies and Zombie Commissioners Leave Opening for Parole Reform in New York

 Nick Pinto,
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June 21, 2021

How the Manhattan DA Election May Rock the City’s Criminal Justice Status-Quo
June 17, 2021

On NYPD Oversight, Manhattan’s D.A. Candidates Are Split

 Sam Mellins,
June 16, 2021

How Alvin Bragg Rejects Bill Bratton and Broken Windows Policing

 Daniel Nichanian,
June 11, 2021

Syracuse School Board Elections Heat Up Over Police Debate

 Rachel M. Cohen,
June 7, 2021

Cuomo’s Nominee to New York’s Highest Court Alarms Criminal Justice Reformers

 Kyle C. Barry,
April 19, 2021

This Public Defender Has Fought the Manhattan D.A.’s Office. Now She Wants To Lead It.

 Daniel Nichanian,
March 11, 2021

‘Life Sentences Are Death Sentences.’ How This D.A. Candidate Wants to Decarcerate Manhattan

 Daniel Nichanian,
March 4, 2021

In Manhattan D.A. Race, Momentum Builds to Decriminalize Sex Work

 Sam Mellins,
February 4, 2021

BLM Activist Shakes Up Sheriff Race in County Known for Deadly Jails

 Raina Lipsitz,
February 2, 2021

Will Manhattan’s Next D.A. Break Ranks With Tough-on-Crime Colleagues?

 Sam Mellins,
January 5, 2021

New York Ends a Punishment That Traps People in Poverty

 Jonathan Ben-Menachem,
July 17, 2020

Jamaal Bowman Wants Democrats to Be the “Party of Dismantling Mass Incarceration”

 Daniel Nichanian,
June 1, 2020

New York Senator Makes the Case for Defunding the NYPD

 Daniel Nichanian,
November 22, 2019

When People in Prison Can Vote, Officials “Treat Them With Some Respect”

 Daniel Nichanian,
October 10, 2019

New York Adopted Pretrial Reforms. Its DA Races Will Decide Who Implements Them.

 Daniel Nichanian,
July 2, 2019

Tiffany Cabán’s Success in Queens Shines Spotlight on Grassroots Organizing

 Daniel Nichanian,
June 19, 2019

The Queens D.A. Race Shakes Up New York's Legal System: "This is Just the Beginning"

 Daniel Nichanian,
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April 18, 2019

New Yorkers from Queens to Rochester Vote for Prosecutor This Year: A First Preview

 Daniel Nichanian,
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April 17, 2019

New York's 2019 Elections for Sheriff and DA: A Masterlist

 Daniel Nichanian,
April 11, 2019

New York Sheriff Who Joined ICE Program May Coast to Re-Election

 Daniel Nichanian,