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    Letter to Governor Hochul Re: Corrections Oversight Omnibus Bill

    New York City Comptroller | Sept 9, 2025

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    On the Count: The Prison and Criminal Legal System Transformation Report

    WBAI Free Speech Radio | Aug 23, 2025

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  • Metal gates lock in detainees at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island, March 20, 2025

    Latest Rikers Death Prompts Suspensions as Family Struggles for Answers

    The City | Aug 25, 2025

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  • Mid-State Correctional Facility is pictured Dec. 22, 2024 in Marcy, N.Y

    CNY corrections officer sentenced to 3 years in prison for assaulting inmate

    Syracuse.com | Aug 21, 2025

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  • Prison reform advocates push for passage of oversight bills

    Spectrum News | Inside City Hall

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  • With prison system in crisis, NBC obtains new footage of violence against NY prisoner

    NBC | Hallie Jackson

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    ‘Fraught With Abuse’: Lawmakers Denounce Brutality in N.Y. Prisons

    New York Times | Jan Ransom 

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  • Drummers held a performance in the state Capitol on Tuesday and joined mothers of incarcerated individuals to raise awareness on criminal justice bills that lawmakers are pushing to address increased violence in New York's prisons.

    Special legislative hearing will address deaths of inmates in NY prisons

    WXXI News NPR | Jeongyoon Han 

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  • State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III testifies at a legislative hearing on May 14, 2025.

    Lawmakers press state prisons commissioner at hearing 

    City & State New York | Austin Jefferson 

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  • Advocates have called for lawmakers to enact new bills after Brooks' death in December.

    Lawmakers eye overhaul of New York's prison system after beating deaths 

    Albany Times Union | Dan Clark 

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  • Assembly Correction Chair Erik Dilan (left) co-chaired the hearing (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)

    What end-of-session bills are on the table in response to Robert L. Brooks' death

    Capitol Confidential | Dan Clark 

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  • Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks alongside the Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys, April 16, 2025. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY

    Albany Push for Prison Reforms Left Out of State Budget 

    The City | Reuven Bleu 

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  • After two deaths at the hands of employees of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, and a three week illegal correction officer strike, Wednesday presented a long awaited moment at the state Capitol: An opportunity for lawmak

    In wake of two deaths and a strike, lawmakers hold hearing as they plot prison reforms 

    Spectrum News 1 Albany | Jack Arpey 

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    Push for change in NY prisons 

    NBC10 in Albany | Jamie DeLine 

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  • New York lawmakers to address rising deaths in state correctional facilities

    Lawmakers zero in on reforming New York's prison system after inmate beating deaths Briana Supardi

    CBS6 Albany  | Briana Supardi

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  • New York Prisons in Crisis

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