Settlement houses workers face burnout amid poverty-level wages: Report

A United Neighborhood Houses study found that the housing settlements provide essential community services, while issues of salary parity and employee retention persist.

• By Aliana Jabbary, NYN Media
• September 29, 2022

Advocates and electeds call for an end to solitary confinement as City Council discusses a bill to curtail the controversial practice

So far, no policy decisions have yet made progress in stopping jail officials from isolating incarcerated people.

• By Angelique Molina-Mangaroo
• September 29, 2022

Nonprofits provide plan for ending “crisis on Rikers Island”

Freedom Agenda, HALT Solitary, Jails Action Coalition, Visionary V, VOCAL-NY and Women’s Community Justice Association provided a list of demands to the Board of Correction.

• By Ralph R. Ortega
• September 14, 2022

New York’s new concealed carry law is severely flawed, federal judge says

The Wednesday ruling allowed the new law to take effect, but reads like a blueprint for future court battles.

• By Sara Dorn, NYN Media
• September 2, 2022

How New York’s highest court has veered right

A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in the most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police

• By Sam Mellins
• July 7, 2022

Debating the impacts of bail reform

State Sen. Michael Gianaris, Assembly Member Latrice Walker and former Queens prosecutor James Quinn discussed law changes at John Jay College of Criminal Justice Friday.

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• May 15, 2022

In a letter to state leaders, unions back immigrant health care expansion

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• March 23, 2022

Transportation advocacy groups call on state legislature to pass street safety bills

A coalition of 14 organizations is pushing for the Crash Victim Rights and Safety Act.

• By Angelique Molina-Mangaroo
• January 27, 2022