Life and death in a New York prison
As New York prisons face a second wave of COVID-19 cases, one incarcerated person tells New York Focus they haven’t fixed the problems that led to the first.
Gautama Mehta · December 10, 2020
I felt like the walls of my cell closing in on me, like a trash compactor. | Sofiya Voznaya
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The policy and its sudden reversal will be among Acting Commissioner Anthony Annucci’s last acts.
New York prisons may have effectively banned journalism behind bars.
The governor’s team coordinated meetings between her failed chief judge nominee and Senate Republicans in the days before a key committee vote, emails show.
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A new letter from the federal government is energizing a push to expand health insurance for undocumented New Yorkers, but time is running out.
Some counties pay social services workers so little, the people who administer benefits end up applying themselves.
Formerly incarcerated "peers" offer drug counseling to people in county jails — when they can get in.