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December 22, 2022
Kathy Hochul Pushes New York’s Highest Court to the Right
Daniel Nichanian
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December 14, 2022
What Off Year? Hundreds of Local Elections Will Define Criminal Justice Policy in 2023
Daniel Nichanian
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July 12, 2022
New York’s Chief Judge Resigns, Breaking Up High Court’s Right-Leaning Majority
Sam Mellins
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May 12, 2022
New York Bans Most Prison Care Packages from Family and Friends
Emily Brown
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Rebecca McCray
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April 27, 2022
Activists Monitor the Revival of New York’s Notorious Plainclothes Police Squads
Tana Ganeva
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April 14, 2022
Prison Officials Routinely Deny Hearings to Terminally Ill New Yorkers
Victoria Law
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April 9, 2022
How New York Just Rolled Back Criminal Justice Reforms
Chris Gelardi
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March 22, 2022
Despite Federal Gains, Public Defenders Largely Missing from State Supreme Courts
Rachel M. Cohen
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February 24, 2022
Eric Adams’s Gun Violence Plan Looks a Lot Like Bill de Blasio’s
Chris Gelardi
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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
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June 16, 2021
How Alvin Bragg Rejects Bill Bratton and Broken Windows Policing
Daniel Nichanian
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June 11, 2021
Syracuse School Board Elections Heat Up Over Police Debate
Rachel M. Cohen
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June 7, 2021
Cuomo’s Nominee to New York’s Highest Court Alarms Criminal Justice Reformers
Kyle C. Barry
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April 19, 2021
This Public Defender Has Fought the Manhattan D.A.’s Office. Now She Wants To Lead It.
Daniel Nichanian
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March 11, 2021
‘Life Sentences Are Death Sentences.’ How This D.A. Candidate Wants to Decarcerate Manhattan
Daniel Nichanian
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March 4, 2021
In Manhattan D.A. Race, Momentum Builds to Decriminalize Sex Work
Sam Mellins
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February 4, 2021
BLM Activist Shakes Up Sheriff Race in County Known for Deadly Jails
Raina Lipsitz
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February 2, 2021
Will Manhattan’s Next D.A. Break Ranks With Tough-on-Crime Colleagues?
Sam Mellins
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January 5, 2021
New York Ends a Punishment That Traps People in Poverty
Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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July 17, 2020
Jamaal Bowman Wants Democrats to Be the “Party of Dismantling Mass Incarceration”
Daniel Nichanian
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June 1, 2020
New York Senator Makes the Case for Defunding the NYPD
Daniel Nichanian
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November 22, 2019
When People in Prison Can Vote, Officials “Treat Them With Some Respect”
Daniel Nichanian
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October 10, 2019
New York Adopted Pretrial Reforms. Its DA Races Will Decide Who Implements Them.
Daniel Nichanian
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July 2, 2019
Tiffany Cabán’s Success in Queens Shines Spotlight on Grassroots Organizing
Daniel Nichanian
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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
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April 11, 2019
New York Sheriff Who Joined ICE Program May Coast to Re-Election
Daniel Nichanian
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