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8 Jun 2012, 7:57 am
Raucci began receiving a retirement allowance from the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System of approximately $5,800 per month. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 11:17 am
As detailed in this New York Times article, Connecticut is yet another state on a ever-growing list that is struggling with its ever-growing prison population. [read post]
24 May 2017, 2:23 am by Jeremy Saland
The criminal defense attorneys at Crotty Saland PC served as Manhattan prosecutors and represent clients throughout New York State in criminal record sealing. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 5:27 am by admin
New York State now has some of the toughest DWI laws in the nation, with a strong focus on prevention New York joins nine other states in mandating ignition interlocks for first-time offenders, in addition to any other terms of sentence, such as prison, jail or probation. [read post]
20 May 2019, 1:06 pm by lennyesq
BY JB NICHOLAS   ***   New York City’s plan to close Rikers Island has hit a snag: New York State’s parole system, which sends more people back to prison for petty parole violations than nearly every other state in the country.The plan to close the infamous jail hinges on reducing its population to under 5,000 people, a number that could fit into four new jails to be built near… [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 7:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
”Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported (Jan. 5) that:The New York City Department of Correction has stopped its controversial use of solitary confinement for mentally ill inmates who break the rules, a shift that jail officials are hailing as groundbreaking.The last of the prisoners being held in the Mental Health Assessment Unit for Infracted Inmates at Rikers Island jail were reassigned Dec. 31, and what is known as the punitive segregation program has… [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 4:00 am
According to a news report, this new law, known as Leandra's Law states that a first offense will carry a potential prison sentence of up to four years; up to 15 years if a child passenger is seriously injured; and up to 25 years if the child is killed. [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 4:44 am
Source: Crime & Justice News "Chronic prison overcrowding has Hawaii and at least seven other states looking increasingly across state lines for scarce prison beds, usually in prisons run by private companies, the New York Times reports. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 10:54 am by Brill Legal Group
New York, which has the country’s highest COVID-19 death rate, has halted new criminal jury trials while ordering courts to finish pending trials. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
“Since 2010, the state [of New York] has sought to fire 30 prison guards accused of abusing inmates through a convoluted arbitration process that is required under the union contract. [read post]
20 Feb 2023, 7:41 pm by David Oscar Markus
In many states, the data showed, high rates continued in 2021.While there was ample evidence that prisons were Covid hot spots, an examination of the data by The New York Times underscored how quickly the virus rampaged through crowded facilities, and how an aging inmate population, a correctional staffing shortage and ill-equipped medical personnel combined to make prisoners especially vulnerable during the worst public health crisis in a century. [read post]
The post Two New York residents arrested for alleged scheme to launder $4.5B in stolen bitcoin appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 3:56 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
We as individuals may not have the power to ensure some mobbed-up crony does his time in prison, but we can at least stop inviting them to Christmas parties (if you are a fancy person in D.C. or New York) and make fun of them on Twitter. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 7:50 am by Ashby Jones
Barkow, a professor at the New York University School of Law. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 8:35 am
Eliot Spitzer is proposing a commission to study closing some of the state's dozens of prisons, the New York Times reports. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 8:24 am by Michael O'Hear
  New York’s emphasis on cops over prison guards is also evident in state employment data: the number of police in New York State has increased by more than 35% since 1990, while the number of corrections personnel has grown by only 1%. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 11:02 am by David J. Halberg, Esq.
The New York Times recently reported on the case of a former federal corrections officer in Manhattan who confessed to sexually abusing seven female prisoners prior to being sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 8:02 am
"Most prisons always operate on hope, and when you start having sentencing reforms, you start taking away a lot of hope," says Larry Sullivan, a criminology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. [read post]