Corrections officers claim customs the law puts them in danger from violent inmates.
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Urban Action 4/10
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Ending solitary confinement The College at Brockport will host a program titled “Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Solitary Confinement as Torture in the US Prison System” on Thursday, April 18. Melanie Funchess, director of […]
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Activists press state Democrats on mass incarceration
Groups across New York are calling on the Assembly, Senate, and Governor Andrew Cuomo to pass and sign bills that would legalize marijuana, eliminate cash bail, restore voting rights to incarcerated people and parolees, and reform parole and solitary confinement policies.
