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Recent New York News & Related Documents:
Raga Justin, NY halts plan to enroll inmates in Medicaid care, Times Union (Jan. 13, 2024)
Molly Biklen, Deputy Legal Director, Legal & Simon McCormack, Senior Writer, Communications, NYCLU, ACLU of New York, Why Rikers Needs a Federal Receivership, and Why It Must Close for Good (Dec. 12, 2023) + Jeffery C. Mays, New Jails Commissioner Aims to Avoid Federal Rikers Takeover, N.Y. Times (Dec. 8, 2023) + , A timeline on the closure of Rikers Island, City and State New York (Dec. 4, 2023)
Related: NYCLU Amicus Curiae Brief: Nunez et al. v. City of NY (filed: Dec. 1, 2023 in United States District Court. Southern District of New York, case no.: 1:11-cv-05845-LTS)
Trent Griffin-Braaf, Op-ed: How sentencing reforms can address workforce shortages, Crain's N.Y. Business (Dec. 12, 2023) - BLS patrons: please contact askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu for help obtaining this article.
Alysia Santo & Joseph Neff, ‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons, Marshall Project (filed 6 AM, EST, Dec. 12, 2023) + How We Investigated Abusive Prison Guards Getting Their Jobs Back in New York (filed 6 AM, EST, Dec. 12, 2023)
Related: Clean Slate New York (includes link to text of Clean Slate Act (S7551A/A1029C))
Jan Ransom & Tracking the Deaths in New York City's Jail System, N.Y. Times (Oct. 19, 2023) + Sam McCann, 28 People Have Died in New York City Jails Since the Start of Last Year, Vera (Oct. 6, 2023)
Related: New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, Department of Correction: Dashboard + The State of New York City Jails: One Year of Measuring Jail Operations and Management on the Comptroller’s DOC Dashboard (Aug. 9, 2023)
Tools To Find New York Bills:
The New York Times: A current BLS student, faculty member or administrator can create an individual account. Click here for instructions. Also, subscription Lexis+ provides The New York Times from June 1980-today. Subscription Proquest provides a similar database (PDF). Proquest also provides Historical New York Times with Index (PDF).
Tips: Lexis+ & Westlaw sources below require BLS students, faculty and administrators to enter individual login credentials. BLS researchers who plan to use Proquest's U.S. Newsstream off campus and do not live in a BLS residence: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser, then close/reopen that browser.