LAist

Trump's speech on economy

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Krytyka Polityczna

Inside Lechaina, a dark age care center where activists are fighting for disabled peoples’ rights

Activists and volunteers are fighting to improve living conditions in the ‘trash can’ of Greece's flailing welfare system.

N.Y. Governor Signs Prison Reform Bill After Beatings and Deaths

Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a ...
Utica Observer Dispatch on MSN

Prison reform legislation following Brooks, Nantwi deaths

After calls for prison reform after the deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed an omnibus ...

New York enacts major prison reforms; Here’s what’s changing

Following the murders of two Black men by corrections officers, Gov. Hochul signed legislation requiring surveillance ...
The New York Times

N.Y. Lawmakers Put Pressure on Hochul to Sign Prison Reform Bills

The bills, which have already passed the State Legislature, would help prevent brutality in prisons, supporters say. But the governor has yet to enact them. By Jan Ransom New York State lawmakers this ...
Times Union

For family of slain inmate, prison reform has become their mission

Robert Brooks Jr., whose father was fatally beaten at Marcy Correctional Facility 11 months ago, said he would like to meet Gov. Kathy Hochul “and just have a real conversation with her, just so she ...
The Financial Times

US prison reform campaigns focus on solitary confinement

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A team of Arnold & Porter attorneys won a landmark victory last year for women at a California federal prison ...
Opinion

Prison methods are as bad as you’ve heard, and spilling onto the streets

Based on a six-year investigation and contraband cellphone footage that courageous incarcerated men supplied from inside one of America’s most dangerous and dysfunctional prison systems, filmmakers ...
Virginia Connection Newspapers

Prison Reform Takes Long, Tortuous Path

Del. Patrick Hope (D-47) spearheaded legislation this session that creates a state ombudsman over the Department of Corrections. “I hope this will allow us to go in and inform us of what is going on ...
North Country Public Radio

Clemency videos, advocates push for prison reform bill, holiday orchestra concert

We speak with a filmmaker who has been interviewing incarcerated people around the state trying to help their clemency cases; advocates are calling on the governor to sign a prison reform bill, a year ...

Former New York state prison guard sentenced to up to life in prison in inmate’s death

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.