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Recent New York News & Related Documents:
Chris Gelardi, As Deaths Mount in New York Jails and Prisons, Advocates Rally for Oversight: Reporters’ Notebook, N.Y. Focus (Mar. 29, 2025) + Reuven Blau, Prison Deaths and Strike Chaos Reveal Backsliding on Basic Reforms, The City (Mar. 17, 2025, 5:00 AM) + Ed Shanahan, 2,000 Striking N.Y. Prison Officers Fired and Barred from Public Jobs, N.Y. Times (Mar. 11, 2025)
Sahalie Donaldson, A timeline on the closure of Rikers Island, City and State New York (Mar. 24, 2025) + Jacob Kaye, Days after commission issues plan to close Rikers, mayor charts his own path – with few details, Queens Daily Eagle (Mar. 21, 2025) + Philip Marcelo, Rikers Island inmates sue NYC claiming they were trapped in cells during jail fire that injured 20, Associated Press (updated 1:39 PM EDT, July 8, 2024)
Related: CBS News, Rikers Island
Approach The Bench: Judge Frederic Block On Resentencing, Law360 (Feb. 11, 2025, 12:22 PM EST), which also links to Approach the Bench podcast episode 17: New York District Senior Judge Frederic Block
See also book review: William E. Nelson, 'Something Needs to Be Done': Review of Frederic Block's 'A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It' N.Y. Law J. "Commentary" @ Law.com (Feb. 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM)
See also guest essay: Joseph Sanchez, After 17 Years in Prison, I'm a Different Person. Do Cases Like Mine Deserve a Second Look? N.Y. Times (Sept. 8, 2024)
See also executive summary + report: Becky Feldman, Second Look Network Director at The Sentencing Project, executive summary + link to download report: The Second Look Movement: A Review of the Nation's Sentence Review Laws (published May 2024 & updated Mar. 2025)
See also these stories on conviction integrity committees: Andrea Keckley, New EDNY Committee To Give Convictions A Second Look, Law360 (July 25, 2023) + Rob Abruzzese, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace establishes Conviction Integrity Committee, Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 25, 2023) + Molly Crane-Newman, SDNY forms committee to help get innocent people out of prison, N.Y. Daily News (updated Oct. 17, 2022)
Related website: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, Conviction Integrity Committee includes: How do I submit a case for review?
Related list w/ links: The National Registry of Exonerations, Conviction Integrity Units
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.