On Tuesday, the Legal Aid Society asked a judge for a second time to compel the state prison agency to curtail its practice of keeping incarcerated people confined to their cells and dorms for upward of 20 hours a day — or else this time take the extraordinary step of holding the prison agency in contempt. New York state prisons have subjected thousands to such conditions for six months, including during extreme summer heat; the motion alleges that the prison agency hasn’t fulfilled the legal requirements to justify it.

New York’s state-funded home care program for the elderly and disabled has been in turmoil for months.

The $9 billion program serves hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and was taken over by Georgia-based company Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) in April, with the stated goal of making the program more efficient and reducing fraud. Since then, workers and patients have complained of missed paychecks, randomly slashed hours, breaches of sensitive data, and other issues.

On Thursday, New York lawmakers will hold a hearing focused on the program, which is known as CDPAP, to try to understand why the transition has been beset by so many serious issues.

New York Focus has reported extensively on this topic, with a particular eye on Leading Edge Administrators, the company that PPL hired to provide health insurance and other benefits to the army of low-wage health aides who provide the individualized care.

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Mayor Adams has surpassed each of his predecessors individually in terms of new and preserved affordable housing units, but he has not exceeded their combined total — as he said he did during a press event in July.